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Aaron ibn Sargado

10th century Babylonian gaon

Summary

10th century Babylonian gaon

Field	Value
name	Aaron ibn Sargado
native_name	אהרן הכהן בן יוסף - כלף סרג'דו
native_name_lang	he
religion	Judaism
known_for	Gaon of Pumbedita, Bible commentator
era	10th century
title	Gaon
predecessor	Hananiah
father	Joseph ha-Kohen

| honorific-prefix = Aaron ibn Sargado or Aaron ben R. Joseph ha-Kohen (Hebrew: אהרן הכהן בן יוסף - כלף סרג'דו) was a tenth-century AD gaon (Jewish religious leader) in Pumbedita, Babylonia. He was a son of Joseph ha-Kohen.

Biography

According to the chronicle of Sherira, Sargado was gaon from 943 to 960; others declare he died in 942. He was successor to the gaon Hananiah, 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 has shown.

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.

Like his opponent Saadia Gaon, 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, Mafteaḥ, 1891, p. 177;
Adolf Neubauer, 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.

References

[http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=174&letter=A AARON IBN SAGADO], jewishencyclopedia.com; Article
See ''[[Seder 'Olam Zuṭṭa]]'' in "Anecdota Oxoniensia," ii. 83

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