Dosa ben Saadia (Hebrew: דּוֹסָא בֶּן סַעֲדְיָה, romanized: Dosā ben Saʿăḏyā; Arabic: دوسة بن سعيد الفيومي, romanized: Dawsa bin Saʻīd al-Fayyūmi; c. 935 – 1018) was a Talmudic scholar and philosopher who was the Gaon of Sura from 1012 until his death in 1018.
DosabenSaadia (Hebrew: דּוֹסָא בֶּן סַעֲדְיָה, romanized: Dosāben Saʿăḏyā; Arabic: دوسة بن سعيد الفيومي, romanized: Dawsa bin Saʻīd al-Fayyūmi; c. 935...
ancestors Hanina benDosa, the famous ascetic of the first century. Expression was given to this claim by Saadia in calling his son Dosa; this son later...
Gaon of Sura from 998 to 1012, he was later succeeded by DosabenSaadia. His son Israel ben Samuel Ha-Kohen was the last Sura Gaon. Although, as a rule...
necessary, Messiah ben Joseph will wage war against the evil forces and die in combat with the enemies of God and Israel. According to Saadia Gaon the need...
Gaon) – around 998 and around 1012 DosabenSaadia Gaon (Son of Saadia Gaon) – 1012–1018 Israel ha-Kohen ben Samuel ben Hofni (Hophni) – 1018–1033 Sources:...
physical, the attitude in medieval sources is more often negative. DosabenSaadia, the head of Sura Academy from 1012-1018, took an oath in his teenage...
Sura and that of Pumbedita in Babylonia, and corresponded with Dosa, the son of Saadia Gaon. He was also instrumental in transferring the center of Jewish...
137:5, "If I forget you, O Jerusalem, My right hand will forget." To Rabbi Dosa, this verse meant that God said that if God forgot Jerusalem, God's right...
clappers were hung on the robe, 36 on each side (front and behind). Rabbi Dosa (or others say, Judah the Prince) said in the name of Rabbi Judah that there...