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  • again from 942 to 948. Joseph was born c. 902 in Sura. His father Jacob ben Natronai was the Gaon of Sura from 911 to 924, and his mother descended from...
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    Sadoq) – 886–896 Hilai ben Natronai ben Hilai Gaon (Hillai, Natrunai) – 896–904 Shalom ben R. Mishael – 904 Jacob ben R. Natronai (ha-Kohen, Natrunai) – 911–924...
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    way it is affixed Translated from Hebrew biography in Bar Ilan CD-ROM Kupfer, Ephraim (1972). "Jacob ben Asher". Encyclopaedia Judaica, First Edition. 9:...
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    Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi (1013–1103) (Arabic: إسحاق الفاسي, Hebrew: ר' יצחק אלפסי), also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym, the Rif (Rabbi Isaac...
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  • Abu 'Isa and Yudghan, Serene also was a religious reformer. According to Natronai b. Nehemiah, gaon of Pumbedita (719–730), Serene was hostile to rabbinic...
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    Jacob ben Meir (1100 – 9 June 1171 (4 Tammuz)), best known as Rabbeinu Tam (Hebrew: רבינו תם), was one of the most renowned Ashkenazi Jewish rabbis and...
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  • Nissim ben Jacob (Hebrew: ניסים בן יעקב), also known as Nissim Gaon (Hebrew: רבנו נסים גאון, lit. 'Our teacher Nissim the Gaon'; 990–1062), was a rabbi...
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    current rites in use among Rabbinic Jews. Amram ben Sheshna was a pupil of Natronai ben Hilai, Gaon of Sura, and was exceptionally honored with the title of...
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    which attracted many students. One of his most noteworthy students was Jacob Weil. Moelin lived through the mass slaughter of Jews in Austria in 1420...
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  • Moses ben Jacob ibn Ezra, known as Ha-Sallaḥ ("writer of penitential prayers") (Arabic: أَبُو هَارُون مُوسَى بِن يَعْقُوب اِبْن عَزْرَا, romanized: Abū...
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  • Rabbi Simeon bar Isaac bar Avon of Mainz (also known as Rabbi Shimon ben Yitzchak, Rabbi Simeon the Great, (Hebrew: שמעון בן יצחק; c. 950 - c. 1020) was...
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  • he laid hands on (ordained) the underling of R. Aḥa whose name was R. Natronai, and R. Aḥa became angry [at this appointment] and departed Babylonia to...
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  • Jacob of Orléans (died 3 September 1189) was a noted Jewish scholar. Jacob was a tosafist in Orléans, France, who studied under Rabbenu Tam. He remained...
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    publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Jacob b. Yakar". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls....
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  • was a granddaughter of Aaron of Lunel, who was the son of Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel. Aharon haLevi studied under his father Joseph haLevi and brother...
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  • teachers was a certain Rabbi Jacob, whom he cites as his authority for an astronomical explanation, and who may have been Jacob ben Machir ibn Tibbon. It...
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  • great-grandfather, Abun, his grandfather, Moses ben Abun, and his father, Jacob ben Moses ben Abun (called "ha-Navi"), all having been presidents of the...
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    of Gaonic material, including the Seder of Amram Gaon, the responsa of Natronai Gaon, the responsa of Sherira Gaon, and others. Every source quotes it...
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  • Meshullam son of Jacob (or Meshullam HaKohen ben Ya'akov) also known as Rabbeinu Meshullam hagodol (Rabbi Meshullem the great) was a Franco-Jewish Talmudist...
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  • several Jewish scholars associated with the town, including Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel, Rabbi Abraham ben David (the "RABaD") who taught in Lunel before...
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