- Gaon (Hebrew) - Wikipedia
Gaon (Hebrew: גאון, gā'ōn, lit 'pride', plural geonim, גְּאוֹנִים , gĕ'ōnīm) was originally a formal title for the Geonim, heads of Talmudic academies in the 6th–11th century
- Gaon - Jewish Virtual Library
In the 12 th and 13 th centuries – after the geonic period in the exact sense of the term – the title gaon was also used by the heads of academies in Baghdad, Damascus, and Egypt It eventually became an honorific title for any rabbi or anyone who had a great knowledge of Torah
- Gaon | Talmudic law, Rabbinic tradition, Jewish philosophy | Britannica
Gaon, the title accorded to the Jewish spiritual leaders and scholars who headed Talmudic academies that flourished, with lengthy interruptions, from the 7th to the 13th century in Babylonia and Palestine
- GAON Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of GAON is a Jewish head of one of the Babylonian academies at Sura and Pumbedita from about a d 589—1038 and usually an eminent religious scholar and judicial authority —used as a title of honor
- GAON - JewishEncyclopedia. com
The gaon of Sura sat at the right hand of the exilarch, while the gaon of Pumbedita sat at the left When both were present at a banquet, the former pronounced the blessing before and after the meal
- The Brilliance of the Vilna Gaon - The Times of Israel
The Gaon went on to explain that the word, “עלי” was actually an abbreviation for the three men that would ultimately cause Yakov, a great deal of grief
- Gaon - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Gaon (plural Gaonim or Geonim or Gaons) (historical, Judaism) A sage of the Talmudic academies of Babylonia quotations 1991, Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy [1] The Gaon also was distressed by the veneration the Hasidim accorded their rabbinic leaders, men whom the Gaon generally regarded as ignoramuses
- gaon - Jewish English Lexicon
Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005) Plural geoynim
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