Hai Gaon
Hai Gaon · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Head of the Pumbedita academy and leading legal authority; his responsa engaged science, philosophy and philology across the medieval Jewish world
939, Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate (present-day Iraq) — 1038, Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate (present-day Iraq)
Baghdad · Pumbedita
Hai Gaon is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Head of the Pumbedita academy and leading legal authority; his responsa engaged science, philosophy and philology across the medieval Jewish world
Hai ben Sherira, a Jewish rabbi and the last of the great Geonim, headed the academy of Pumbedita (then in Baghdad) and was the supreme legal authority of the Jewish world of his day. His thousands of responsa engaged law, philosophy, philology, and the sciences, and were dispatched across the Mediterranean and beyond, shaping halakha for centuries.
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Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
Head of the Pumbedita academy and leading legal authority; his responsa engaged science, philosophy and philology across the medieval Jewish world
Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
