Capitolo 31
particular cases, they brought the Jewish and newer life in the moral harmony
with the principles formulated by the more first Rabbis. The Gaonim both
the emitters or, at least, the arrangers of parts of the liturgy.
They composed new hymns and calls, I fix the order of service, and
established in the full vigor a system of _Minhag_ or Custom which the power
become more predominant, not only in religious, but also in
social and commercial business.
The literary productions of the Gaonic grow old open with the _Sheeltoth_
written by Achai of year 760. This, the first independent book
composed after the closing of the Talmud, you/he/she was curiously enough compiled
in Palestine, Achai had emigrated where from Persia. The Sheeltoth
("Investigations") almost contains two hundred homilies on the Pentateuch. In
the year 880 another Gaon, prepared name Amram a _Siddur_, or
Prayer-book that includes many comments on the history of the liturgy
and the customs connected with him. A contemporary of Amram, Zemach the
child of Paltoi, finds a different channel for his/her literary energies. Him
compiled a _Aruch_ or Lexicon of Talmudical. Of the more asset of the
Gaonim, more Saadiahs will be said in a subsequent chapter. We now want
you pass above to Sherira that in 987 he/she wrote his "Letter" famous, while containing a
history of the Jewish Tradition, a job to which stamps the author as
once it learned and critical. It shows that the Gaonim is not afraid neither
incapable of covering such problems as this: It was the Mishnah _orally_
sent forth to the Amoraim (or Rabbis of the Talmud), or it was it
Down_ of _written from the compiler? Sherira accepted the first alternative.
The last Gaonim is more productive than the first far. Sam, the
child of Chofni that died in 1034 and the last of the Gaonim, Has that
bloomed by 998 to 1038, it was the authors of many jobs on the
Talmud, the Bible and the other branches of the Jewish literature. You have Gaon it was
also a poet.
The language used by the Gaonim was Israelite before for and Aramaic and the