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Geonica, Vol. 1: The Geonim and Their Halakic Writings (Classic Reprint)
Geonica Vol 1 The Geonim and Their Halakic Writings - Classic Reprint Author:Louis Ginzberg I. THE GAON ATE. Palestine and Babylonia. "'The staff shall not depart from Judah'-the Exil-avehs who govern the people with the ruler's rod; ' nor a lawgiver from between his feet1-the descendants of Hillel who instruct the people in the Torah." This brief, vivid characterisation of the two groat Jewish institutions of the Talmudic time, by a J... more »ewish sage living at the beginning of the second centuryremained do loss true in the centuries that followed. In spite of friction now and again between the later Patriarchs and th« less