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Moses de Rieti 58 and Rabbi Abraham From Saadia ' s strong opposition to Ibn Ezra paid tribute to Saadia ' s work in Karaism, he emerges, above all, as a man this field. Ibn Ezra wrote, May the L-rd of insight who recognized the necessity double the reward of the Gaon who gave of maintaining Jewish unity. In the words complete answers to the Sadducees, [the of Ibn Daud, He gave answers to the Karaites were often referred to as Sad- heretics and those who deny the Law ducees] who forbid the light on the and thus did great deeds for Israel. 60 Sabbath. 5 ? NOTES l Solomon Grayzel, Karaites; Karaism, Valentine ' s Jewish Encyclopedia, ed. Albert M. Hymason and A. M. Silbermann (London, 1938 J, p. 345 2David Druck, Saadia Gaon, Scholar, Philosopher, Champion of Judaism (New York, 1942), p. 16 :i Leon Nemoy, Karaite Anthology (New Haven), 1953), p. xxiii 4 Bernard Revel, The Karaite Halakah and its Relation to Sadducean, Samaritan and Philonion Halakah (Philadelphia, 1913), p. 3 5 A. S. Halkin, Saadia ' s Exegis and Polemics 136, Rab Saadia Gaon, ed. Louis Finkelstein (New York, 1944), p. 136 6 Revel, p. 3 7Druck, p. 25 s Loc. cit. 9 Samuel Poznanski, ' Anti-Karaite Writings of Saadia Gaon, Jewish Quarterly Review, X(1898), 238 lORevel, p. 6 HHeinrich Graetz, History of the Jews (Philadelphia, 1894), 111, 182 mbid., p. 155 13Druck, p. 26 i4Loc. cit. Vlbid., p. 29 lfi Maurice Simon, Saadia ben Joseph, Valentine ' s Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 568 17Graetz, p. 189 18 Simon, p. 568 19Joseph Elias, The Spirit of Jewish History (New York, 1949), p. 63 20Judah B. Eisenstein, Rav Saadia, Ozar Yisroel Encyclopedia (London, 1935), VII, 234 2llbid„ p. 233 22 Nernoy, p. xx 23Druck, p. 29 24Z,oc. cit. 25Exodus 35:3 26Graetz, p. 132 - Solomon Zeitlin, Saadia Gaon, Champion for Jewish Unity and Religious Leadership, Saadia tudies, ed. Abraham Neuman and Solomon Zeitlin (Philadelphia, 1943), p. 289 2 ' s Abraham Harkavy, Karaites and Karaism, Jewish Encyclopedia VII (1904), 585 - Henry Maker, Saadia; His Life and Works (Philadelphia, 1921), p. 47 ' Quoted in Solomon Schechter, Studies in Judaism (London, 1896), 1, 162 31Max L. Margolis and Alexander Marx, A History of the Jewish People (Philadelphia, 1941), p. 271 32Poznanski, Anti-Karaite Writings, p. 261 HI bid. p. 240 Hlbid. p. 252 Hlbid., pp. 254-5 36Baron, p. 9 37Halkin, p. 137 38Graetz, p. 189 - Zeitlin pp. 286-7, note 103 • Benjamin B. Levin, Ozar Ha-Gaonim on Tractate Berakhot (Haifa, 1928), 32-33 42 Samuel Poznanski, A Fihirist of Saadia ' s Works, Jewish Quarterly Review XIII (1923), 396 •i- ' Saadia Gaon, The Book of Beliefs and Opinions, trans. S. Rosenblatt (New York, 1896), 335 44 Margolis and Marx, p. 271 ■ 5Harkavy, Karaites, p. 441 ■• Samuel Poznanski, The Karaite Literary Opponents of Saadia Gaon (London, 1908), p. 4 illbid,, p. 90 48Margolis and Marx, p. 271 49Nemoy, p. xx 50Graetz, p. 157 5 ' Nemoy, p. xxi 52Poznanski, Anti-Karaite Writing, p. 276 53Nemoy, p. xxi 54Loc. cit. 55Druck, p. 32 ■ r ' °Grayzel, History, p. 270 57Poznanski, Anti-Karaite Writings, p. 240 5%Loc. cit. 59Quote d in Ibid., p. 245, note 4 ;n Quoted in Ibid., p. 240

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