Gaon
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English
Etymology
From Hebrew גָּאוֹן (ga'ón, “grandeur, majesty, genius”).
Noun
Gaon (plural Gaonim or Geonim or Gaons)
- (historical, Judaism) A sage of the Talmudic academies of Babylonia.
Quotations
- 1991, Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy
- The Gaon also was distressed by the veneration the Hasidim accorded their rabbinic leaders, men whom the Gaon generally regarded as ignoramuses.
- 1996, Roger Friedland, Richard Hecht, To Rule Jerusalem
- Like the hasidim, he too refused the title of rabbi, adopting the ancient title of Gaon.
- 1997, Moshe Gil, A History of Palestine
- The Gaon also mentions a letter he has received from Ḥasan as-ʻĀqūlī (al-ʻĀqūla, the ancient Aramaic name for Kūfa) undoubtedly one of the emigrants from Iraq to Egypt whom the Gaon knew.