תקופת הגאונים
ראשי ישיבות בבל (סורא ופומבדיתא) שהנהיגו את עם ישראל לאחר חתימת התלמוד.
Rav Yehudai ben Nachman Gaon
Yehudai Gaon • Yehudai ben Nachman
700 – 762
Rav Yehudai ben Nachman Gaon was one of the foremost Geonim of the academy of Sura in Babylonia, serving as it…
Rav Saadia Gaon
Rasag • Saadia ben Yosef al-Fayyumi • Saadia al-Fayyumi
882 – 942
Rav Saadia Gaon — Rav Saadia ben Yosef al-Fayyumi (882–942), known in short as Rasag — was a polymath: a decis…
Rav Sherira Gaon
Sherira ben Hananiah
906 – 1006
Rav Sherira Gaon, Gaon of the Pumbedita academy, authored the famous Epistle on the order of the generations a…
Hai Gaon
Hai ben Sherira
939 – 1038
Hai Gaon, the son of Sherira Gaon, was the last Gaon of Pumbedita. He was among the greatest halakhic authorit…
Rabbi Samuel HaNagid
Shmuel ha-Levi ben Yosef • Isma'il ibn Naghrillah
993 – 1056
Rabbi Samuel HaNagid was among the greatest sages of Sepharad, a military commander and adviser to the kings o…