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Rabu, 2026-08-19 13:56:58of the Geonim covers a period of nearly 450 years. There were two major Geonic academies, one in Sura and the other in Pumbedita. The Sura Academy was...
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Senin, 2026-08-24 21:26:44modern scholars, most of whom believe de León, also an infamous forger of Geonic material, wrote the book himself between 1280 and 1286. Some scholars argue...
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Sabtu, 2026-03-28 18:00:27Gedoloth (lit. great halachoth) is a work on Jewish law dating from the Geonic period. It exists in several different recensions, and there are sharply...
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Selasa, 2026-06-30 08:42:49by Ahai of Shabha (variants: Aḥa of Shabha; Acha of Shabcha), during the geonic period. She'iltot is an Aramaic word, meaning "Inquiries" or "Quæstiones"...
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Sabtu, 2026-02-28 19:10:10are responsa written by rabbis of the Geonic period in response to questions addressed to them. In the geonic period the elucidative letter and the scholarly...
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Senin, 2025-09-22 15:09:27rulings') is a condensed rabbinic work attributed to Yehudai Gaon in the Geonic Era, containing chapters on common Jewish halachic themes. The work was...
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Minggu, 2026-08-09 11:05:43Aramaic for 'Months of Kallah'). The rest of the year, they worked. The Geonic period (589 CE (Hebrew date: 4349) to 1038 CE (Hebrew date: 4798)) takes...
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Senin, 2026-08-24 15:42:07entire Jewish world. The deans and students of said academies defined the Geonic period in Jewish history. Following this period were the Rishonim who lived...
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Jumat, 2026-05-01 01:19:42Metivta (also mesivta; Aramaic: מתיבתא, "academy") is an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva secondary school for boys. The term is commonly used in the United States...
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Minggu, 2026-06-21 04:29:17Babylonia, also known as the Geonic academies, were the center for Jewish scholarship and the development of Halakha during the Geonic era (from c. 589 to 1038...
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Selasa, 2026-06-16 08:36:36Pumbedita, an unidentified location in modern Iraq, during the Amoraic and Geonic eras. It was founded by Judah bar Ezekiel around 260 CE and, with the Sura...
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Sabtu, 2026-08-08 22:52:423, 2003, A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods, p.682 Translation and definition "ממון", Dictionary Hebrew–English...
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Sabtu, 2024-03-23 08:45:32halakhist of the first half of the 8th century. Although he lived during the Geonic period, he was never officially appointed as a Gaon, and therefore does...
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Senin, 2026-08-10 04:47:56school. Modern research suggests that the text is pseudepigraphic from the Geonic period of the eighth century, written in or near the Land of Israel. Medieval...
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Senin, 2026-08-24 23:16:49Talmud and to dispute many of the accusations surrounding its contents. Geonic-era (6th-11th centuries) commentaries have largely been lost, but are known...
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Selasa, 2026-08-18 02:45:38The Jews established Talmudic Academies in Babylonia, also known as the Geonic Academies (from "Geonim", meaning "splendour" in Biblical Hebrew or "geniuses")...
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Jumat, 2026-05-22 21:16:08Nahman) was the head of the yeshiva in Sura from 757 to 761, during the Geonic period of Judaism. He was originally a member of the academy of Pumbedita...
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Senin, 2026-08-10 19:38:56ISSN 0334-3650. JSTOR 23595074. The earliest mentions of this mnemonic include the geonic work Halakhot Pesuqot: Yehudai ben Nahman (attributed). "18". Halakhot Pesuqot...
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Kamis, 2026-06-25 11:20:05ceased to be observed by the Geonic period. The first mention of the Fast of Esther is as a minhag that is referenced in the Geonic period. The medieval scholar...
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Minggu, 2026-07-19 06:11:03– שלא שם, ו – ואנחנו כורעים, ה – הוא אלוקינו. The Teshuvot HaGeonim, a Geonic responsum, discussed that Joshua composed the Aleinu because although the...
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Minggu, 2026-08-23 22:40:18corresponding Hebrew word ma'arav (מערב) was used for North Africa. In Talmudic and Geonic times, however, this word ma'arav referred to the land of Israel, as contrasted...
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Rabu, 2024-10-30 06:04:27Nehardea or Nehardeah (Imperial Aramaic: נהרדעא, romanized: nəhardəʿā "river of knowledge") was a city from the area called by ancient Jewish sources Babylonia...
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Selasa, 2026-08-25 21:06:41commonly used to mean 'received tradition' or 'chain of tradition' by the Geonic period. See works by Eleazar of Worms (eg. his gloss on Sefer Raziel HaMalakh)...
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Senin, 2026-06-15 05:01:51Taifa of Granada in al-Andalus, and one of the early Rishonim of the post-Geonic period. He was the son of Rabbi Samuel ha-Nagid and son-in-law of Rabbi...
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Senin, 2026-01-26 03:00:18root נ-ז-ל meaning "to flow down". The phrase mazel tov first appears in Geonic Hebrew, where it means "positive astrological sign" or simply "good fortune...
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Kamis, 2026-08-06 13:22:59haggadic piece in sections 78–106. References in the Talmud, and in the later Geonic literature, indicate that the original core of Sifre was on the Book of...
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Senin, 2026-03-02 22:16:46tractates of the Talmud, is a Jewish aggadic work probably compiled in the Geonic era (c. 700–900 CE). It is a commentary on an early version of the Mishnah...
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Sabtu, 2025-03-29 22:41:04development of responsa literature is divided into six periods: Tannaitic, Geonic, first Rabbinic, second Rabbinic, third Rabbinic, and fourth Rabbinic. The...
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Selasa, 2026-06-23 08:25:39brought rationalist philosophy into Biblical-Talmudic Judaism. During the Geonic period, philosophy was generally in competition with Kabbalah. Both schools...
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Jumat, 2026-06-05 10:22:09Judaism today does not often directly discuss evil spirits, as late as the Geonic period, incantation bowls made by Aramaic-speaking inhabitants of Mesopotamia...
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Minggu, 2026-08-09 01:51:12his Chronicle." See also Moshe Gill, In the Kingdom of Ishmael during the Geonic Period (במלכות ישמעאל בתקופת הגאונים), vols. 1–4, Tel-Aviv 1997, p. 19 (Hebrew)...
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Kamis, 2026-03-12 06:20:33Nehar Pekod. The community experienced another era of prominence during the Geonic period when tens of thousands of Surian Jews came to Nehar Pekod to learn...
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Sabtu, 2025-11-22 05:06:54number of "classical" Midrashic works spanning a period from Mishnaic to Geonic times, often showing evidence of having been worked and reworked from earlier...
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Jumat, 2026-08-07 10:03:56Talmud (which was completed in the seventh century) and of post-Talmudic Geonic literature, which are the most important cultural products of Babylonian...
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Kamis, 2026-08-20 09:41:42rivers) where a number of Jewish religious academies functioned during the Geonic period (6th–11th century CE). In the Bible, Babylon and the country of Babylonia...
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Kamis, 2026-08-06 15:11:58on the first day and Azharat Reishit on the second, both from the early Geonic period.[citation needed] Italian Jews do the same except that they switch...
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Rabu, 2025-06-11 21:20:30of Iskiya sat at the feet of the disciples of these masters, begin the geonic period with the restoration of the Pumbedita academy, and to its promoter...
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Senin, 2026-06-22 16:18:16"Hai Gaon's Commentary on Seder Taharot", in Epstein, J.N. (ed.), The Geonic Commentary on Seder Taharot - Attributed to Rabbi Hai Gaon (in Hebrew),...
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Senin, 2026-07-06 00:20:55Michael (2003). A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods. Bar Ilan and Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-7233-2...
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Minggu, 2025-03-09 00:17:23Nahshon ben Zadok נחשון בן צדוק Personal life Parent Zadok (father) Era Geonic period Notable work(s) Explanations to difficult words in the Talmud, Re'umah...
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Selasa, 2026-06-23 08:24:42analogous to that of the Palestinian Targum. The term originated in the geonic period, when, however, the work received also the more precise designations...
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Minggu, 2026-08-09 18:59:51(395–423) and of Theodosius II (408–450). The custom was popular during the Geonic period (9th and 10th centuries), and a 14th century scholar described how...
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Senin, 2026-06-15 04:43:07descended from a prominent Geonic line. Several scholars such as Moshe Yair Weinstok and Yaakov Leib Shapira argued that this Geonic line could be paternally...
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Kamis, 2026-05-14 05:57:26according to Ginsberg is the earliest extant halakhic work surviving from the Geonic period. This epistle, the first known example of its kind for advocating...
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Rabu, 2022-06-01 15:16:23Hai ben David (Hebrew: האי בן דוד) was a late 9th-century rabbi of the Geonic period, who served as the Gaon (dean) of Pumbedita Academy from 890 to 897...
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Rabu, 2026-07-22 08:18:34fortitude shown by them during their execution. These legends became in the Geonic period the subject of a special midrash—the Midrash Asarah Harugei Malkut...
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Minggu, 2026-05-24 10:36:16is, the law is according to the later scholars. This rule dates from the Geonic period. It laid down that until the time of Rabbis Abbaye and Rava (4th...
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Selasa, 2026-08-11 19:59:09Babylonian Talmud (Niddah Tractate), s.v. Mishnah Makhshirin 1:6; also in The Geonic Commentary on Seder Taharot - Attributed to Rabbi Hai Gaon, vol. 2, Berlin...
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Kamis, 2026-04-09 09:41:00"Hai Gaon's Commentary on Seder Taharot", in Epstein, J.N. (ed.), The Geonic Commentary on Seder Taharot - Attributed to Rabbi Hai Gaon (in Hebrew),...
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Kamis, 2026-07-16 19:20:44Creation. Similarly, the cosmogonic conceptions of the Apocrypha and of geonic mysticism must not be considered as indications of the secret teachings...
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Rabu, 2025-10-29 06:40:45Christianity, and lists notable personages of the Biblical, Talmudic, and geonic periods, as per Sefer ha-Qabbalah of Abraham ibn Daud, in chronological...
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Senin, 2026-06-08 05:36:43A modern commentator, Menachem Elon explains: This rule dates from the Geonic period. It laid down the law and states that "until the time of Rabbis Abbaye...
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Rabu, 2026-08-12 13:20:30activities of the Scribes are the mikra Soferim and ittur Soferim. In the geonic schools, the first term was taken to signify certain vowel-changes which...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-25 14:55:42Middle Ages: from the Talmudic (c. 70 – c. 500 CE)[citation needed] and Geonic periods (c. 600 – c. 1040). They were "overwhelmingly from the Land of Israel...
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Minggu, 2026-08-23 22:09:48Jewish cosmology in late antiquity, dating to the post-Talmudic or early geonic period. It is also closely associated with Hekhalot and Merkavah literature...
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Minggu, 2026-04-26 02:35:36"Hai Gaon's Commentary on Seder Taharot", in Epstein, J.N. (ed.), The Geonic Commentary on Seder Taharot - Attributed to Rabbi Hai Gaon (in Hebrew),...
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Senin, 2025-09-22 02:52:07before they were combined into a single tractate named Pesachim during the Geonic period (by 1040 CE), or, because the tractate deals with the two occasions...
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Jumat, 2026-06-12 02:33:44characteristic of the 3rd or 4th century; for a work of this nature, composed in the Geonic period, could have been cast only in the form of Jewish gnosis, which remained...
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Jumat, 2026-06-05 14:25:41according to Sherira ben Hanina, formed part of names like "Amemar". In the Geonic period, "Mar" could be used for any notable and the Geonim were generally...
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Sabtu, 2025-04-26 05:40:55active intermittently from the early Amoraic period until the end of the Geonic period. It was established by the amora Samuel of Nehardea, one of the great...
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Minggu, 2026-08-23 12:13:56up in a small encasement and affixed to a doorframe. At least since the Geonic times, the name Shaddai is often written on the back of the parchment containing...
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Selasa, 2025-11-25 00:54:39joyful celebration of obscure origin and forgotten meaning, observed since Geonic times in mid-spring and in which highly religious Jews give their three-year-old...
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Senin, 2026-02-16 11:49:58attacking the Jews of Wadi al-Qura to conquer their land Recent discoveries of Geonic responsa have shown that there was a Jewish presence in Wadi al-Qura as...
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Kamis, 2026-08-13 01:52:48is, the law is according to the later scholars. This rule dates from the Geonic period. It laid down that until the time of Rabbis Abbaye and Rava (4th...
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Sabtu, 2026-06-20 19:52:32involving music or singing. Later, as public worship was developed in the Geonic period and as the knowledge of the Hebrew language declined, singing gradually...
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Rabu, 2026-02-04 14:39:15Genesis, published at Belvedere, near Constantinople. He also published 400 Geonic responsa in Constantinople in 1575. This article incorporates text from...
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Sabtu, 2026-08-15 16:32:26Following the dominance in Syria of the Sephardic rite, which took the Geonic disapproval of piyyut seriously, most of these piyyutim were eliminated...
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Sabtu, 2025-12-27 00:35:01day in some Ashkenazic and Italian communities, and dating back to early Geonic times. Other versions appear in the 10th century Siddur of Saadia Gaon,...
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Rabu, 2026-08-19 19:50:25known as Tosefta, which was an integral part of a scholar's education. Geonic sources attest to the existence of a single work named Tosefta which is...
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Sabtu, 2026-02-21 22:28:17Hurvitz's sub-areas of specialty are: halakhic and midrashic literature, Geonic literature, and Genizah research. He earned a doctorate from Yeshiva University's...
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Minggu, 2026-08-16 10:23:05Australian ISIS leader from New South Wales. Isaac of Firuz Shabur, rabbi of the Geonic period Isaac Guerendo (born 2000), American football player Isaac Hanson...
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Jumat, 2026-07-10 22:47:33Compare responsum of Hai ben Sherira quoted in Sefer Shaarei Teshuvah - 353 Geonic Responsa, "Chullin 106a:11 | Sefaria Library". www.sefaria.org. Jerusalem...
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Senin, 2026-06-15 04:28:30work presents evidence for the pronunciation of liturgical Hebrew based on Geonic literature, such as the Saadya Gaon, and the writings of medieval Hebrew...
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Kamis, 2025-10-02 01:24:11in Southern Italy, likely Bari, an important rabbinic center in the late geonic period. Around the year 1005, his father Chushiel travelled to North Africa...
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Selasa, 2026-08-18 11:10:56aggadic (non-legal, and homiletic) matter. The Hilchot soon superseded the geonic codes, as it contained all the decisions and the laws then relevant, and...
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Rabu, 2026-06-03 00:53:25father Natronai must be inserted. Both are designated as exilarchs in a geonic responsum. Ukban IV is mentioned as exilarch immediately following the death...
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Sabtu, 2026-08-08 07:16:11are] sixty-five golden ingots." In old Jewish parlance, as late as the Geonic period, the Hebrew word מערה (ma'arah, lit. "cave") signified a burial cave...
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Jumat, 2026-07-31 18:34:27in which such shaving was regarded as feminine. Sephardic men since the Geonic era have shaved their body and pubic hair as this was the practice amongst...
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Jumat, 2026-07-03 07:02:29the last of which is used today. Babylonian Biblical manuscripts from the Geonic period contain no cantillation marks in the current sense, but small Hebrew...
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Selasa, 2026-04-14 09:51:26email and as a downloadable file through the society's web page. The EEGS/Geonics Early Career Award acknowledges academic excellence and encourages research...
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Minggu, 2026-07-26 16:05:58the Maharal's family descended patrilineally from the Exilarchs of the geonic era and therefore also from the Davidic line. Israel later took a position...
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Senin, 2026-07-06 21:59:58(literary unit) in the Babylonian Talmud of Kiddushin is a Saboraic or Geonic addition and was not written by Amoraim like the rest of the Talmud. The...
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Jumat, 2026-07-24 21:18:22Michael (2002). A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods. Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press. ISBN 9780801872334. Sokoloff...
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Jumat, 2026-07-24 03:40:05head the Presence of the LORD". Although close variants are known from the Geonic period, a version of the prayer very similar to the one recited today appears...
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Jumat, 2026-03-20 00:21:54"master") was a high honorific for teachers and Exilarchs in the Talmudic and Geonic periods, but Modern Hebrew adopted it as "Mr.". The Geonim used the double...
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Senin, 2025-07-21 03:10:43whole of the earlier midrashic literature as well as the literature of geonic mysticism. He interprets also halakic authors, especially Alfasi and R....
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Rabu, 2026-06-17 19:08:34comprehensive commentary on the Arba'ah Turim, citing and analyzing the Talmudic, Geonic, and major subsequent halachic authorities. It analyzes the theories and...
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Senin, 2026-06-22 16:34:30"Hai Gaon's Commentary on Seder Taharot", in Epstein, J.N. (ed.), The Geonic Commentary on Seder Taharot - Attributed to Rabbi Hai Gaon (in Hebrew),...
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Rabu, 2026-04-01 03:48:19"Hai Gaon's Commentary on Seder Taharot", in Epstein, J.N. (ed.), The Geonic Commentary on Seder Taharot - Attributed to Rabbi Hai Gaon (in Hebrew),...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-25 07:54:26multiple materials arranged in groups of seven. A later legal work, the Geonic-period Sepher ha-Ma'asim, adds that children could wear knots only until...
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Kamis, 2026-08-13 06:09:26sources "from the canonization of the Bible until the conclusion of the Geonic period." The Source Book serves as the foundation for all work on the dictionary...
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Minggu, 2026-04-26 05:35:37could not be built in some residential areas. Avudraham said that in the Geonic period Jews were afraid to stay out late enough to pray Maariv. Jews normally...
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Jumat, 2026-02-13 05:54:45Passover Seder after Hallel. This has been current practice at least since the Geonic period (c. 800-1000 CE). While this is the earliest known reference to the...
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Senin, 2026-06-15 05:04:02been preserved in the geonic collections and the works containing the earlier decisions. His responsa are similar to the geonic responsa in general, a...
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Jumat, 2025-10-03 06:11:03American Rabbis for the Reform Movement in North America. A collection of Geonic responsa published in 1802. A synagogue in the tunnels of the Western Wall...
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Senin, 2025-07-07 00:17:20is the chief source for the history of the Talmudic, post-Talmudic, and geonic periods. Jacob ben Nissim of Kairouan addressed, in the name of his community...
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Jumat, 2026-07-31 13:11:32righteous and wicked, as in the Book of Enoch. By the Savoraic or early Geonic parts of the Rabbinic period (500–640 AD), Gehinnom was viewed as the place...
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Jumat, 2026-08-07 05:28:27the hands of his cousin, the gaon Maṣliaḥ. It may be noted here that the geonic family of the Land of Israel was of Aaronite origin and that Abiathar claimed...
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Minggu, 2025-03-09 14:29:54that he placed after the period of the Tannaim and Amoraim, but before the Geonic period. He concluded that to a large extent, the Stamma'im essentially wrote...
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Kamis, 2026-05-07 01:09:20into the work. Maimonides wrote that Alfasi's work "has superseded all the geonic codes…for it contains all the decisions and laws which we need in our day…"...
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Senin, 2026-06-01 07:11:17eventually superseded the others. The distinctive Babylonian pronunciation of Geonic times is still preserved by Yemenite Jews, but they do not retain the Babylonian...
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Sabtu, 2025-01-18 22:16:04and French medievals include it. However, no tal addition appears in the Geonic prayerbooks, and German medievals did not say tal . In the Ashkenazic rite...
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Rabu, 2026-08-26 06:01:291904, where the word is shown to have been used for "Talmud" from the geonic period (see also idem, "Die Terminologie der Amoräer," pp. 31 et seq., Leipsic...
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Selasa, 2026-06-16 07:48:35CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Containing a liturgy of the geonic period. Teshuvot ha-Geonim [Responsa of Geonim]. Vienna. 1871. hdl:2027/mdp...
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Rabu, 2025-10-08 22:37:421909/28 Tishrei 5670–24 March 1968) was a scholar of the Talmud, Midrash and Geonic literature. He was a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and...
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Rabu, 2026-04-29 23:30:20[ben Yosef al-Fayyumi] Gaon) - our Rabbi, the Saadia Gaon; rabbi from the Geonic period, halachist and Jewish philosopher רב סרן, רס״ן (rasan, rav seren)...
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Rabu, 2026-01-14 03:59:58midrash makes use of the work of Maimonides and Isaac Alfasi, as well as many geonic writings, but the sources are never cited, a unique characteristic of this...
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Rabu, 2026-07-22 22:53:18Nikud is also mentioned in the Zohar despite the fact that it [is] from Geonic times!' he said. I later found this comment in the Mitpachas Seforim. I...
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Senin, 2026-06-15 04:59:53covering the span from the end of the Mishnaic period to the end of the geonic period. It is largely concerned with rebutting the accounts given by Jewish...
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Rabu, 2026-07-15 08:40:44Franco-German school of Rashi and Tosafot, as opposed to the Babylonian Geonic school followed by Rambam. Rabbi Glasner insisted that Rambam's interpretations...
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Kamis, 2026-08-13 18:36:14"Hai Gaon's Commentary on Seder Taharot", in Epstein, J.N. (ed.), The Geonic Commentary on Seder Taharot - Attributed to Rabbi Hai Gaon (in Hebrew),...
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Kamis, 2026-08-20 16:33:43communities. Scholars generally trace the formation of fixed Jewish prayer to the Geonic period (7th–11th centuries), when rabbinic leaders in Babylonia created...
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Jumat, 2026-07-24 08:45:15intellectually, and brings "a new internalization". Among the first post-Geonic writers of ḥiddushim are: Joseph ibn Migash wrote the first published cḥidushim...
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Minggu, 2026-08-09 19:31:53including the convening of rabbinic courts to annul marriages, using the Geonic model. Such actions have been widely condemned within the orthodox community...
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Kamis, 2026-08-06 23:50:29"Hai Gaon's Commentary on Seder Taharot", in Epstein, J.N. (ed.), The Geonic Commentary on Seder Taharot - Attributed to Rabbi Hai Gaon (in Hebrew),...
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Selasa, 2025-10-14 10:07:26(סעדאל). Saadia Gaon (892–942), rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the Geonic period Saadia Ibn Danan (died 1493), rabbi, poet, and Dayan in Grenada Saadiah...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-30 23:49:43Michael (2002). A dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the talmudic and geonic periods. Bar Ilan University Press. p. 792. ISBN 965-226-260-9. OCLC 1015128901...
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Sabtu, 2026-02-07 21:06:34major portion of halakhic and aggadic literature during the ancient and geonic epochs, but also the aggadic literature as late as the 12th century. The...
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Senin, 2025-05-05 04:24:18that its redactor excluded many of the passages from Ishmael's work. A geonic responsum in which appears a passage from the Mekhilta likewise indicates...
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Jumat, 2026-06-26 23:28:24Business Media. pp. 372–373. ISBN 9789401022651. "AWDANet". plasmon.elte.hu. "Geonics Limited - VLF Receivers". Retrieved 13 June 2014. "Sub 9 kHz spectrum in...
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Kamis, 2026-04-30 04:12:30Award (2008) Awarded the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society/Geonics Early Career Award (2009) Awarded the Pennsylvania State University George...
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Jumat, 2025-12-19 10:44:06of Transient Electromagnetic Techniques, Technical Note 7, Geonics Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario. "Geonics Limited Publications". Retrieved 13 June 2014....
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Minggu, 2026-04-26 05:32:33Gaon (died 942), thus indicating a composition date towards the end of the Geonic period. The first of the two prayers was composed in the tenth or eleventh...
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Senin, 2026-08-10 09:05:17peculiarities in the local Lyon liturgy prior to the spread of Babylonian geonic authority to Europe marked by the revision of prayer books according to...
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Selasa, 2026-08-11 21:44:40North African branch of the Babylonian-Arabic family, as prevailing in Geonic times in Egypt and Morocco. Following the Reconquista, the specifically...
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Minggu, 2026-02-22 09:56:0118, 2020. Rank, Jonah (2014). ""My Father, The Rabbi": Images of the Pre-Geonic Rabbinate's Paternal Authority". Conservative Judaism. 66 (1): 107–131....
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Selasa, 2026-01-06 06:05:11developed, "Land of Israel" and "Babylonia". However, by the end of the Geonic period (c. 1038), the prayers of all the traditional Jewish ethnic divisions...
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Rabu, 2025-12-10 13:50:57quite similar and are recognizably the same prayer. With the decline of the Geonic centers in Israel (ca. 11th century), the Palestinian rite slowly fell into...
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Senin, 2025-01-20 20:08:10assumption of Friedmann's was subsequently confirmed by the publication of a geonic responsum, where a baraita from the Sifre de-Bei Rav to Exodus is quoted...
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Selasa, 2026-06-23 08:18:03doctorate in Vienna and Bern, which he received in 1912, he published on geonic and Talmudic philology, and began studying the Mishnah in 1915. In 1923...
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Jumat, 2024-03-29 08:17:56and Naḥmanides, and especially upon the old kabbalistic literature of the geonic period. The "Ẓiyyuni" is introduced by poems in alphabetic and acrostic...
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Sabtu, 2026-02-07 04:38:42declaration and its author are alike unknown, but it was in existence at the Geonic period (589–1038 CE). There was a common theory that it commenced during...
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Senin, 2026-05-04 01:52:22Izhak Ben-Zvi. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-8147-6639-2. Gaon (pl. geonim, hence geonic) was the title of the head of the yeshiva (pl. yeshivot, loosely translated...
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Senin, 2026-06-15 00:27:33valuable portion of the collection, since this treatise was neglected in the geonic period, and the later glosses on it left much to be desired. He was recognized...
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Minggu, 2026-01-11 15:02:36"Hai Gaon's Commentary on Seder Taharot", in Epstein, J.N. (ed.), The Geonic Commentary on Seder Taharot - Attributed to Rabbi Hai Gaon (in Hebrew),...
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Kamis, 2026-05-28 01:25:31There are seven aliyot on a Sabbath (Megillah 21a). Bet Yoseph quotes a geonic source in explanation of this number (Ein Pochasim, Tur, Hilchot Shabbat...
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Kamis, 2026-08-20 12:04:42University Press. doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521843232.003. Brody, Robert (2013). "The Geonic Period and the Background of Saʿadyah Gaon's Activities". Saʿadyah Gaon...
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Minggu, 2026-06-14 12:12:01on the Responsa of the Geonim, he provided an extensive analysis of the Geonic chain of tradition, arguing among other things that the 'Spanish' version...
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Selasa, 2026-07-28 01:06:57Geology Institute of Atmospheric Physics, established in 1964 Institute of Geonics Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics Institute of Inorganic Chemistry...
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Senin, 2026-06-01 03:04:00the Gemara), who lived after the period of the Amoraim, but before the Geonic period. He posits that these Stammaim were the recipients of terse Tannaitic...
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Rabu, 2026-08-19 14:41:27the people in the east and the people of Eretz Yisrael", from the early Geonic period; Nusach Eretz Yisrael Archived 22 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine...
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Minggu, 2025-03-09 13:02:16Havlin & Isaac Iodlub "The Geonic teachings" ("תורתם של הגאונים"); or Rafael Halperin, "Tree of life", vol. 3, appendix "The Geonic years of tenure" ("שנות...
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Kamis, 2025-01-09 02:36:56introduction to the Sefer Ḥasidim Ḳohelet Shelomoh (1899), a collection of geonic responsa, with notes and introduction, and with Hebrew translations of the...
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Selasa, 2026-03-17 14:41:01tenth century. This evolved into a Jewish tradition under the rabbis of the Geonic era (c. 600–1040), spreading on migration and trade routes, as well as through...
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Senin, 2026-06-01 10:39:56– שלא שם, ו – ואנחנו כורעים, ה – הוא אלוקינו. The Teshuvot HaGeonim, a Geonic responsum, discussed that Joshua composed the Aleinu because although the...
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Rabu, 2025-07-09 21:17:36[the list of ten names] seven times as a charm". The prayer reads: The geonic teshuva cited above indicates that hadran comes from the Aramaic root h-d-r...
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Rabu, 2026-08-05 12:02:26Hebrew writings concerning music, in manuscripts and printed books from Geonic times up to 1800. Internet Archive. München : G. Henle Verlag. p. 284....
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Kamis, 2026-07-30 01:36:05prodigy (iluy) and later authored Otzar HaGeonim, a foundational study on Geonic halakha (Mirsky 2014, pp. 11, 33–34; Mirsky 2021). After making aliyah in...
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Selasa, 2026-07-28 02:51:07; Heck, R. J.; Parkin, G. W.; et al. (October 2011), "Evaluation of a Geonics EM31-3RT probe to delineate hydrologic regimes in a tile-drained field...
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Senin, 2026-02-16 04:09:17worked in Toronto, Canada, at Scintrex Ltd. and later as a consultant for Geonics Ltd. In 1977 he moved to the United States and began teaching geophysics...
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Rabu, 2026-07-29 19:12:58that followed by Rashi and Tosafot, often stemming from the Babylonian Geonic school, which the Rambam had followed in reaching his codification. Rabbi...
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Kamis, 2026-02-05 09:40:39One of his major contributions was his collection and arrangement of the geonic responsa, which had hitherto been scattered among the world's Jewry. Menahem...
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Senin, 2026-06-15 01:53:20Israel ben Samuel Ha-Kohen was the last Sura Gaon. Although, as a rule, geonic literature consists mainly of responsa, Samuel ben Ḥofni composed but few...
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Kamis, 2026-06-11 01:33:21century onward. He has also conducted extensive research on Maimonides, Geonic responsa and texts, the works and leadership of Saadia Gaon, and the Cairo...
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Sabtu, 2025-09-20 20:45:19composition itself, which is unmistakable. The work reached Babylonia in the geonic period; and even at that time it received amplifications and additions from...
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Kamis, 2026-05-21 22:31:06"Hai Gaon's Commentary on Seder Taharot", in Epstein, J.N. (ed.), The Geonic Commentary on Seder Taharot – Attributed to Rabbi Hai Gaon (in Hebrew),...
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Kamis, 2026-07-02 07:43:33positive attitude towards the practice of astrology. Many rabbis in the Geonic era (after the close of the Talmud, early medieval period) discussed the...
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Rabu, 2025-11-05 14:08:05Edition, by Professor Yosef Ofer and Professor Jonathan Jacobs (2022). 2.The Geonic Talmud – The Attitude of Babylonian Geonim to the Text of the Babylonian...
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Minggu, 2026-08-09 14:58:19show proper respect for one another. Most researchers argue that since the Geonic period it was accepted in Judaism that Rabbi Akiva's students died at the...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-18 19:27:36scientific influence. The Seder Rabbah di-Bereshit is a Late Antique or Early Geonic Jewish text which has a uniquely, highly developed cosmological system consisting...
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Rabu, 2026-06-03 12:28:06to this day considered authoritative. All of them were collected in the geonic period in the "Order of the Tannaim and Amoraim" (סדר תנאים ואמוראים; abridged...
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Minggu, 2026-07-05 07:05:09medieval Jewish thought: on the one hand, the Babylonian Talmud and its Geonic and Sephardi interpreters, geared to legal codification, and, on the other...
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Kamis, 2025-02-06 07:52:50(Nine Centuries from the Destruction of the Second Temple to the End of the Geonic Period). Mesorah Publications, Ltd. p. 291. ISBN 0-89906-499-X. Gil, M....
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Rabu, 2026-04-01 14:02:04Nikud is also mentioned in the Zohar despite the fact that it [is] from Geonic times!' he said. I later found this comment in the Mitpachas Seforim. I...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-25 07:04:17critical Biblical editions and commentaries; Tannaitic, Amoraic, Midrashic, Geonic, and Responsa literatures; sixty-nine scholarly journals, including thirty-nine...
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Jumat, 2026-07-24 04:13:24directing the course of history.[citation needed] For the Second Temple and Geonic period, Rabinowitz largely quotes the opinion of Yitzchok Isaac Halevy although...
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Kamis, 2026-05-07 04:23:32Babylonian Talmud (Niddah Tractate), s.v. Mishnah Makhshirin 1:6; also in The Geonic Commentary on Seder Taharot - Attributed to Rabbi Hai Gaon, vol. 2, Berlin...
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Jumat, 2026-07-10 02:24:04Nikud is also mentioned in the Zohar despite the fact that it [is] from Geonic times!' he said. I later found this comment in the Mitpachas Seforim. I...
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Senin, 2026-02-23 00:34:15Pinḥas"). Notable changes occurring in the Baladi-rite tiklāl during the geonic period are the additions of Adon ha-ʿolamim (אדון העולמים), which mark the...
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Jumat, 2026-07-10 02:28:15hortatively reads, "Delve, question"), a commentary on the She'iltoth, a geonic work of halakha by Achai Gaon; Meishiv Davar ("Response [in] Kind"), a collection...
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Senin, 2026-03-16 13:21:39Mishnah: enactments were promulgated also in the Amoraic, Saboraic, and Geonic periods of Jewish law, although their exact dates are no longer known. These...
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Rabu, 2025-01-15 03:49:43period till the completion of the Babylonian Talmud; vol. iv. (1887), of the geonic period until the end of the fifth millennium (= the middle of the 13th century);...
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Senin, 2026-06-15 03:11:39OCLC 13977130 (Available online, at HebrewBooks.org: The Geonic Commentary on Seder Taharot - vol. 1; The Geonic Commentary on Seder Taharot - vol. 2) Ibn al-'Awwam...
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Jumat, 2024-11-01 01:37:17other Talmudic tractates. After undergoing further expression during the Geonic period, damages law was incorporated in the Jewish law codes of the medieval...
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Senin, 2026-06-15 01:53:32original source for these attributions, is infamous for its habit of attaching geonic names to unrelated excerpts. See Albeck, HaEshkol (1931), "Introduction"...
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Kamis, 2025-11-27 07:36:41the Pumbedita Academy. His responsa can be found in most collections of Geonic responsa and is quoted in the works of the posekim. Although this represents...
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