Aaron ibn Sargado or Aaron ben R. Joseph ha-Kohen (

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: אהרן הכהן בן יוסף - כלף סרג'דו) was a tenth-century AD gaon (

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religious leader) in Pumbedita, Babylonia. He was a son of Joseph ha-Kohen.

Biography

According to the chronicle of

Sherira 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 ...

, Sargado was gaon from 943 to 960; others declare he died in 942. He was successor to the gaon

Hananiah Hananiah, Hanina, Chaninah, Haninah, Chananiah ( he, חנינא, חנניה) or Ananias ( grc-koi, Ἀνανίας) may refer to: Hebrew Bible * Hananiah ben Zerubbabel, (Old Testament: Chronicles) * Hananiah (aka Shadrach) of Shadrach, Meshach, a ...

, the father of Sherira. Rav Shrira continues to note that Rabbi Ahron HaKohen was not of a family of scholars, but of wealthy merchants; he was elevated to the gaonate (presidency of a rabbinical academy) through the influence of his family. Caleb ibn Sargado, the determined opponent of Saadia, who spent 60,000 '' zuzim'' in order to bring about the deposition of the gaon of Sura, was probably identical with Aaron, as

Abraham Harkavy Abraham (Albert) Harkavy (, russian: Авраа́м Я́ковлевич Гарка́ви, translit=Avraám Yákovlevich Garkávi; 17 October 1835 – 15 March 1919) was a Russian historian and orientalist. Biography Harkavy was born in 1835 ...

has shown.See '' Seder 'Olam Zuṭṭa'' in "Anecdota Oxoniensia," ii. 83

Rabbinic writings

Four of Sargado's legal decisions on religious problems are preserved, and are printed in the collection, "Ḥemdah Genuza," Nos. 37–40. One of these, it appears, was the answer to an inquiry from

Kairouan Kairouan (, ), also spelled El Qayrawān or Kairwan ( ar, ٱلْقَيْرَوَان, al-Qayrawān , aeb, script=Latn, Qeirwān ), is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city was founded by t ...

. Like his opponent

Saadia Gaon Saʻadiah ben Yosef Gaon ( ar, سعيد بن يوسف الفيومي ''Saʻīd bin Yūsuf al-Fayyūmi''; he, סַעֲדְיָה בֶּן יוֹסֵף אַלְפַיּוּמִי גָּאוֹן ''Saʿăḏyāh ben Yōsēf al-Fayyūmī Gāʾōn''; ...

, Aaron was a Bible commentator, and parts of his commentary are extant in St. Petersburg. Abraham ibn Ezra quotes some of his philosophical sayings.

References

Its bibliography: *

Joel Müller Joel Müller (1827 – November 6, 1895) was a Germans, German rabbi and Talmudist, born in Uherský Ostroh, Ungarisch-Ostra, Moravia, and dying in Berlin.Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography:''Allg. Zeit. des Jud.'' 1895, pp. 542-543, 556-557. He rec ...

, Mafteaḥ, 1891, p. 177; *

Adolf Neubauer Adolf Neubauer (11 March 1831 in Bittse, Hungary – 6 April 1907, London) was at the Bodleian Library and reader in Rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford University. Biography He was born in Bittse (Nagybiccse), Upper Hungary (now Bytča in Slovaki ...

, Mediœval Jewish Chronicles i. 66, 92, 190; * Zunz, in Geiger's Jüd. Zeit. iv. 389; *Winter and Wünsche, Jüdische Literatur, ii. 247; * Geiger, Jüd. Zeit. i. 297.

External links

Rav Ahron ben Yosef HaKohen Gaon at kehuna.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aaron ibn Sargado Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown 10th-century deaths 10th-century rabbis Bible commentators Geonim Kohanim writers of Rabbinic literature Rabbis of Academy of Pumbedita