Letter: ENA 4009.15

Description

Two copies of letters. (1) From Sherira Gaon and his son Hayye to the Palestinian gaon Shemuʾel b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Little of substance is preserved. The senders ask that the letter be read aloud in public in Ramla or Jerusalem. (2) Letter from Yosef b. Ibn Abitūr to the Palestinian gaon Shemuʾel ha-Kohen b. Yosef (not yet transcribed on PGP). Ibn Abitūr's main goal is to get the gaon to reiterate the excommunication of someone whom Ibn Abitūr had already excommunicated, but who refused to repent. Ibn Abitūr also asks the gaon to excommunicate other people "who are aiding this wicked man, inciting him to remain steadfast and, further. to claim that he will be flogged, he will apostatize" (yeṣē mi-dīnō le-tarbūt ra̔ah יצא מדינו לתרבות רעה). Ed. Mann, "Varia on the Gaonic Period (conclusion)," Tarbiz 6, no. 1 (1934), 84–88.