Achai Gaon

R. Acha (also: Achai; * 680, † 752 ) was a Jewish scholar in Geonic rank, often cited as Gaon, although he never achieved the office of Gaon.

He wrote in Babylonia Scheiltot ( "Questions ", " problems "), an approximately 760 finished in Palestine representation of the Halacha according to the order of the Pentateuch ( only partially preserved).

Of the Scheiltot the larger Halachot Pesuqot hang ( " The decisive religious laws ") of the Yehudai Gaon († vermutl. 761 ) or his students and the Halachot Gedolot ( "The big Halachot " ) from where the first list of 613 's and don'ts ( mitzvot ) of Judaism exists.

Expenditure ( selection)

• Venice 1546
• Dyrhenfurth 1786
• Vilnius 1861 ( with notes of R. Isaiah ben Loeb Berlin)
• Versailles in 1886 ( part Hebrew translation after the original Aramaic )
• She'iltot of Achai Gaon, edited by S. Mirsky, Sheeltot de Rab Ahai Gaon, 5 volumes, Jerusalem 1960-1977

Literature (selection )

• Leopold Zunz: The History and Literature. 1845
• Julius Fürst: Bibliotheca Judaica. Leipzig 1849
• Article Achai. In: Salomon Wininger: Great Jewish national biography. Volume I, 1925
• Günter Stemberger: Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash. 8th edition, Munich 1992
• Encyclopaedia Judaica. Volume 2, Jerusalem 1971

• Author
• Jewish Literature
• Literature ( Hebrew)
• Person (Judaism )
• Born 680
• Died 752
• Man