[Letter to the three sons of Suleiman ben ʻAli, Fustat] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942

Contributor:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Language:

Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942--Correspondence.

Saʻadia ben Joseph.

Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942.

Hebrew letters.

Talmudic academies--Iraq--Babylonia.

Talmudic academies.

Iraq.

Jewish calendar.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).

Sulzberger.

Physical Description:

2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): consecutive, complete; stained

Paper 14.2 X 9 [10.2 X 6.5] cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 16-17.

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [10th century-11th century?]

Language Note:

Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

Published from this source by Schechter: Saadyana / S. Schechter [ed.]. Cambridge : Deighton and Bell, 1903, no. VII, pp. 24-26; Jewish Quarterly Review, v. 14 (1914) p. 43, 59-61; H Borenstein, Sefer ha-yovel ... li-khevod Naḥum Soḳoloṿ. Warsaw, 1904, p. 81; M. Gil, Be-malkhut Yishmaʾel bi-teḳufat ha-geʾonim / Mosheh Gil. Tel Aviv : Tel Aviv University, 1997, vol. 2, p. 17-19, no. 5.

The beginning of the epistle is missing. The fragment opens with a complaint of the Gaon about not hearing from his students for six and a half years, and mention of David ben Abraham, an agent of the Yeshiva (Sura) in Egypt.

The rest deals with the two days added by the Gaonate to Kislev and Marḥeshvan in the year 921, a decision rejected by the Erets Israeli Gaon Ben Meir, causing great controversy. The Gaon urges his students in Fustat to accept his decision.

The content of the epistle ends after a third of fol. 2 verso. The remainder, under the heading אלענואן ערבי, records the mail information in Arabic characters, including the addressees, Sulieman ben ʻAli ben Suleiman, and his two younger brothers ʹAziz and Salim(?), and the sender (l. 3) Saīd ben Yousef Ras al-Akal.

This is not the original epistle, as it is in codex, not mail format.

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 332

IMHM, no. F38400

OCLC:

1366217923