Sherira bar Hanina (Hebrew: שרירא בר חנינא) more commonly known as Sherira Gaon (Hebrew: שרירא גאון; c. 906 – c. 1006) was the gaon of the Academy of Pumbeditha. He was one of the most prominent Geonim of his 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 history of the composition of the Talmud.[1][2]
^Trans. Nosson Dovid Rabinowich, The Iggeres of Rav Sherira Gaon (Jerusalem: Moznaim, 1988) OCLC 20044324, p. xx
^Abraham ibn Daud, "Sefer ha-Ḳabbalah," in Adolf Neubauer, Medieval Jewish Chronicles (Oxford, 1887) ISBN 1-145-09335-3, i. 66-67
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Sherira bar Hanina (Hebrew: שרירא בר חנינא) more commonly known as Sherira Gaon (Hebrew: שרירא גאון; c. 906 – c. 1006) was the gaon of the Academy of Pumbeditha...
March 28, 1038. He received his Talmudic education from his father, SherirabenHanina, and in early life acted as his assistant in teaching. In his forty-fourth...
CE) in the Pumbedita Academy by SherirabenHanina, the Chief Rabbi and scholar of Babylonian Jewry, to Rabbi Jacob ben Nissim of Kairouan, in which he...
had seen in his dream. The veracity of this account was disputed by SherirabenHanina who claimed his own lineage traces to a pre-Bostanaian branch of the...
noble family of Shelah, son of Judah, and counting among his ancestors Haninaben Dosa, the famous ascetic of the first century. Expression was given to...
Halachot Gedolot. Many ancient authorities, like the Geonim SherirabenHanina and Hai benSherira, and others, support Kayyara's authorship; and according...
later, as one can see from the Iggeret of SherirabenHanina to Kairouan and in the work of his son, Hai benSherira. However the arguments made are echoed...
source material and that parts of the Tosefta predate the Mishnah. SherirabenHanina (987 CE), in his epistle written to the heads of the Jewish community...
is said to have attracted as many as 12,000 students. According to SherirabenHanina, he was denounced to the emperor for causing twelve thousand men to...
Sherira Gaon ("[The] Epistle of Rav Sherira Gaon") is accounted as an important historian source, especially to Jewish history. Hai Gaon benSherira –...
would become the Mishnah of Rabbinic Judaism, including Yochanan ben Zakai and HaninaBen Dosa. Following the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE and the...
foreign, among them Abbahu, Rabbi Ammi, Rabbi Assi, Eleazar ben Pedat, Hiyya bar Abba, Jose bar Hanina, Shimon bar Abba, and Rabbi Isaac Nappaha. As many of...
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also Niddah 60a Moed 29a Nedarim 78a,b; Bava Batra 121a Letter of SherirabenHanina, in Neubauer, M. J. C. i. 29 Pesachim 108a Menachot 95b Shevu'ot 41b...
during the Jewish Savora sages era. Mar ben Huna was, according to one opinion based on Iggeret Rav Sherira Gaon, the first Gaon of the Sura Academy;...
assumed that the text predates the 11th century, based on a letter by Hai benSherira (939-1038) which mentions the book alongside the Sefer haYashar, described...
the very malady with which he, himself, is plagued! Sherira Gaon (1988). The Iggeres of Rav Sherira Gaon. Translated by Nosson Dovid Rabinowich. Jerusalem:...
vicinity of Nehardea is mentioned by Sherira Gaon as one of the saboraic authorities of the 6th century. Mar R. Ḥanina is mentioned, among the earliest geonim...
learned friends, among whom were R. Abbahu, R. Ḥanina (Ḥinena) b. Pappi, R. Isaac, and R. Samuel ben Nahmani, but the closest and most enduring friendship...
meteorite stone or a fulgurite, colloquially known as petrified lightning." Cf. Sherira's commentary (meaning obscure). Yom Tov of Seville writes (ad loc.) "The...
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...
deaths of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Judah ben Baba during Bar Kokhba's revolt, the flame is the burning of Rabbi Haninaben Teradyon, the captivity is Rabbi Meir...
"He who received a prutah from Job prospered in his affairs." Jose bar Hanina inferred from Job 1:10 that Job's goats could kill wolves; and R. Johanan...
of the Amoraim, since some of them, e.g., Rabbai Bannai and Rabbi Jose benḤanina, are mentioned therein. Both the Sifre to Numbers and that to Deuteronomy...
schools for children and often acted as instructor. It is related that when Hanina bar Hama boasted that he could reconstruct the Torah by logic should it...
ben Gamliel R. Ishmael ben Elisha ha-Kohen R. Akiva R. Haninah ben Teradion R. Judah ben Bava R. Judah ben Dama R. Hutzpit the Interpreter R. Hanina ben...
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