Hai Gaon was the head of the Talmudic Academy of Pumbedita during the era of the Abbasid Caliphate, where the modern city of Fallujah, Iraq is located.
Hai ben Sherira (Hebrew: האיי בר שרירא) better known as Hai Gaon (Hebrew: האיי גאון), was a medieval Jewish theologian, rabbi and scholar who served as Gaon of the Talmudic academy of Pumbedita during the early 11th century. He was born in 939 and died on March 28, 1038.[1][2][3] He received his Talmudic education from his father, Sherira ben Hanina, and in early life acted as his assistant in teaching.[4] In his forty-fourth year he became associated with his father as "av bet din," and with him delivered many joint decisions. According to Sefer HaKabbalah of Rabbi Abraham ben David (Ravad), he was the last of the Geonim.
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HaibenSherira (Hebrew: האיי בר שרירא) better known as Hai Gaon (Hebrew: האיי גאון), was a medieval Jewish theologian, rabbi and scholar who served as...
period, and the father of Hai Gaon, who succeeded him as Gaon. He wrote the Iggeret Rav Sherira Gaon ("[The] Epistle of Rav Sherira Gaon"), a comprehensive...
the Jerusalem version, making it more accessible and readily usable. HaibenSherira, on the preeminence of the Babylonian Talmud, wrote: Anything that...
No 1, Spring 2006 "SHERIRA B. ḤANINA - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 17 May 2021. "HAIBENSHERIRA - JewishEncyclopedia...
assumed that the text predates the 11th century, based on a letter by HaibenSherira (939-1038) which mentions the book alongside the Sefer haYashar, described...
5:2 When Natronai ben Hilai was rumored to have used kefitzat haderech to travel from Babylonia to France and back, HaibenSherira rejected the possibility...
Samuel ibn Naghrela. Ibn Daud reports that relations between Hanoch and HaibenSherira were strained since the increasing stature of the Spanish yeshivot...
Zemah ben Paltoi was an ancestor of Rabbi Hai Gaon, from Hai Gaon's maternal line. He was also the great-grandfather of Sherira Gaon. Sherira Gaon (1988)...
Kairouan Yeshiva, initially under his father, Jacob ben Nissim, who had studied under HaibenSherira and then Chushiel, who succeeded as head of the yeshiva...
whose death Samuel wrote an elegy. Samuel was the father-in-law of HaibenSherira, who is authority for the statement that Samuel, like many of his contemporaries...
דִמְלֶאכֶת הַמִּשְׁכָּן) is a baraita cited several times by HaibenSherira, by Nathan ben Jehiel in the Arukh, as well as in Rashi, Yalkut Shimoni, and...
manner. HaibenSherira, however, denied this, suggesting that some adventurer may have impersonated Natronai and imposed on the Jews of France. Sherira Gaon...
credited with killing multiple evil kings. Saadia Gaon (892–942) and HaibenSherira (939–1038), both heads of the Talmudic academies of Babylonia, probably...
doi:10.2307/3622270. Hai Gaon, l.c. l.c. In Jew. Quart. Rev. xiv.242-246 "SHERIRA B. ḤANINA". Jewish Encyclopedia. 1901–1906. Sherira boasted that his genealogy...
Evidence of the academy in Palestine existing during the lifetime of HaibenSherira, the last Babylonian gaon, is from a mention of Josiah Ḥaber being...
Simuna, and Geonim Rab Rabbah Gaon and Paltoi ben Abbaye Gaon, as well as Sherira Gaon and his son, Hai Gaon. Pumbedita Academy was at its peak during...
later, as one can see from the Iggeret of Sheriraben Hanina to Kairouan and in the work of his son, HaibenSherira. However the arguments made are echoed...
known through later quotations. Only a few authorities, like HaibenSherira and Zedekiah ben Abraham Anaw, know it under the name "Tanhuma". This confusion...
following, many of whom were Karaites: Saadia Gaon HaibenSherira David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas Samuel ben Hofni Jewish Kalam was adopted by the Rabbanite...
Judah quotes include Amram Gaon, Sherira Gaon, Hai Gaon, Nissim Gaon, Alfasi, Maimonides, Elijah ben Menahem, Gershom ben Judah, Jacob of Orleans, Jacob...
pitch or wax. According to both medieval authorities like Geonim Sherira and HaibenSherira, and modern scholars like Abraham Epstein, Kayyara is the author...
Halachot Gedolot. Many ancient authorities, like the Geonim Sheriraben Hanina and HaibenSherira, and others, support Kayyara's authorship; and according...
authority) that his [Judah Leib the Elder] lineage goes back to Reb Hai Gaon the son of Sherira Gaon. Great doubt should be cast upon this." Similar dubious...
view, he will speak to them in dreams. The Process of She'elat Halom HaibenSherira Gaon, a medieval Jewish Rabbi and scholar living from 939 to 1038,...
Geonim of his generation. He would refer questions to Rabbi Sherira Gaon and his son Rabbi Hai Gaon. Most of his responses were written in Hebrew with some...
Details). It followed the style of the Rif and was clearly influenced by Hai Gaon, Sherira Gaon, Joseph ibn Migash, Rashi, and Rambam. The only sections of this...
location, including with leading Torah authorities such as Rav Sherira Gaon, Rav Hai Gaon, and Shmuel Hanaggid. This communication and the commentaries...
this list. Judah Zakkai, who is called "Zakkai ben Ahunai" by Sherira, had as rival candidate Natronai ben Habibai, who, however, was defeated and sent...
Abraham ben David calculated the date 189 CE. Seder Ha-Kabbalah Leharavad, Jerusalem 1971, p.16 (Hebrew) According to the Epistle (Iggeret) of Sherira Gaon...
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