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131SAADIAH (Ben Joseph) GAON — (882–942), greatest scholar and author of the geonic period and important leader of Babylonian Jewry. Saadiah was born in Pithom (Abu Suweir), in the Faiyum district in Egypt. Little is known about his family except that his opponents slandered… …
132YEVAMOT — (Heb. יְבָמוֹת; Levirate Marriages ), first tractate in the order Nashim, in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. In the Cambridge manuscript it is called Nashim ( Women ), a title which is partly justified by the great… …
