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Gaonic — adj. of or pertaining to the Geonim; of the time of the Geonim (heads of Jewish academies from the 6th to the 11th centuries) … English contemporary dictionary
Gaonic period — period between the 6th and 11th centuries AD … English contemporary dictionary
Gaon — Gaonic /gay on ik/, adj. /gah ohn/; Seph. Heb. /gah awn /; Ashk. Heb. /gah ohn, goyn/, n., pl. Geonim Seph. Heb. /ge aw neem /; Ashk. Heb. /gay oh nim/, Eng. Gaons. 1. a title of honor for the directors of the Jewish academies at Sura and… … Universalium
Judaism — /jooh dee iz euhm, day , deuh /, n. 1. the monotheistic religion of the Jews, having its ethical, ceremonial, and legal foundation in the precepts of the Old Testament and in the teachings and commentaries of the rabbis as found chiefly in the… … Universalium
Talmud — Rabbinic Literature Talmudic literature Mishnah • Tosefta Jerusalem Talmud • Babylonian Talmud Minor tractates Halakhic Midrash Mekhilta de Rabbi Yishmael (Exodus) Mekhilta de Rabbi Shimon (Exodus) Sifra (Leviticus) Sifre (Numbers Deuteronomy) … Wikipedia
Yeshiva — This article is about the Jewish educational system. For the private university, see Yeshiva University. Part of a series of articles on Jews and Judaism … Wikipedia
Jewish religious year — Introduction the cycle of Sabbaths and holidays that are commonly observed by the Jewish religious community and officially in Israel by the Jewish secular community as well. The Sabbath and festivals (feast) are bound to the Jewish… … Universalium
Maggid — For other uses, see Maggid (disambiguation). Maggid (מַגִּיד), sometimes spelled as magid, is a traditional Eastern European Jewish religious itinerant preacher, skilled as a narrator of Torah and religious stories. A preacher of the more… … Wikipedia
Talmudic Academies in Babylonia — The Talmudic Academies in Babylonia, also known as the Geonic Academies, were the center for Jewish scholarship and the development of Jewish law in Mesopotamia from roughly 589 CE to 1038 CE (Hebrew dates: 4349 AM to 4798 AM). The key work of… … Wikipedia
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