Among well known ( generally non-kabbalist or anti-kabbalist ) Rabbis who rejected the idea of reincarnation are Saadia Gaon, David Kimhi, Hasdai Crescas, Yedayah Bedershi ( early 14th century ), Joseph Albo, Abraham ibn Daud, the Rosh and Leon de Modena.

Saadia Gaon, in Emunoth ve-Deoth ( Hebrew: " beliefs and opinions ") concludes Section VI with a refutation of the doctrine of metempsychosis ( reincarnation ).

While refuting reincarnation, the Saadia Gaon further states that Jews who hold to reincarnation have adopted non-Jewish beliefs.

Saadia Gaon, who translated it into Arabic in the 9th century, ascribed it to the Maccabees themselves, disputed by some, since it gives dates as so many years before the destruction of the second temple in 70 CE.

( Some claim this section draws heavily on Aristotelian science and metaphysics ; others suggest that it is within the tradition of Saadia Gaon.

Major Jewish philosophers include Solomon ibn Gabirol, Saadia Gaon, Judah Halevi, Maimonides, and Gersonides.

Saʻadiah ben Yosef Gaon ( Saadia Gaon ) identifies the definitive trait of " a cock girded about the loins " within Proverbs 30: 31 ( Douay – Rheims Bible ) as " the honesty of their behavior and their success ", identifying a spiritual purpose of a religious vessel within that religious and spiritual instilling schema of purpose and use, within Judeo-Christian traditions.

Half a century later Rav Saadia Gaon, also of Sura, composed a siddur, in which the rubrical matter is in Arabic.

The most important writers are Yose ben Yoseh, probably in the 6th century, chiefly known for his compositions for Yom Kippur ; Eleazar Kalir, the founder of the payyetanic style, perhaps in the 7th century ; Saadia Gaon ; and the Spanish school, consisting of Joseph ibn Abitur ( died in 970 ), ibn Gabirol, Isaac Gayyath, Moses ibn Ezra, Abraham ibn Ezra and Judah ha-Levi, Moses ben Nahman ( Nahmanides ) and Isaac Luria.

In Yemen, however, rather than abandoning the Aramaic targum during the public reading of the Torah, it was supplemented by a third version, namely the translation of the Torah into Arabic by Saadia Gaon ( called the Tafsir, though this Gaon was born in prominently Jewish at the time Sura Iraq, Babylon, moved to Egypt, arguably lead those two communities, and died in Jaffa ancestral Israel, he was not known to have ever been to the Jewish villages of Yemen.

Philoponus ' arguments against an infinite past were used by the early Muslim philosopher, Al-Kindi ( Alkindus ); the Jewish philosopher, Saadia Gaon ( Saadia ben Joseph ); and the Muslim theologian, Al-Ghazali ( Algazel ).

* Saadia Gaon compiles his siddur ( Jewish prayer book ) in Iraq.

Saʻadiah ben Yosef Gaon ( Saadia Gaon ) identified the definitive trait of " a cock girded about the loins " within Proverbs 30: 31 ( Douay – Rheims Bible ) as " the honesty of their behavior and their success ", identifying a spiritual purpose of a religious vessel within that religious and spiritual instilling schema of purpose and use.

* 9th-12th centuries — Al-Kindi ( Alkindus ), Saadia Gaon ( Saadia ben Joseph ) and Al-Ghazali ( Algazel ) support a universe that has a finite past and develop two logical arguments against the notion of an infinite past, one of which is later adopted by Immanuel Kant

Despite the rivalry of ben Naphtali and the opposition of Saadia Gaon, the most eminent representative of the Babylonian school of criticism, ben Asher's codex became recognized as the standard text of the Bible.

* Sefat Yeter, in defense of Saadia Gaon against Dunash ben Labrat, whose criticism of Saadia, Ibn Ezra had brought with him from Egypt ; published by Bislichs 1838 and Lippmann 1843.

; 940: In Iraq, Saadia Gaon compiles his siddur ( Jewish prayer book ).

The oldest Jewish religio-philosophical work preserved in Arabic is that of Saadia Gaon ( 892-942 ), Emunot ve-Deot, " The Book of Beliefs and Opinions ".

* Saadia Gaon-Ninth century rabbi, philosopher, and exegete of the Geonic period.

* Saadia Ibn Danan-Fifteenth century rabbi, poet, and Dayan in Grenada.

* 1797 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi ( b. 1720 )

* October 9 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi ( b. 1720 )

* April 23 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi ( d. 1797 )

The Gaon of Vilna was the only rabbi whose reputation extended beyond the borders of Lithuania.

Saul Lieberman ( Hebrew: שאול ליברמן, May 28, 1898-March 23, 1983 ), also known as Rabbi Shaul Lieberman or, among some of his students, The Gra " sh ( Gaon Rabbeinu Shaul ), was an Israeli rabbi and a scholar of Talmud.

* the Rogatchover Gaon ( 1858 – 1936 ), rabbi

The Vilna Gaon was modest ; he declined to accept the office of rabbi, though it was often offered to him on the most flattering terms.

Hai Gaon was the head of the Talmudic Academy of Pumbedita during the era of the Abbasid Caliphate, where the modern city of Fallujah, Iraq is located. Hai ben Sherira ( or Hai b. Sherira ( Gaon ), Hebrew: האי גאון בר שרירא ; better known as Hai Gaon, Hebrew: האיי גאון ), was a medieval Jewish theologian, rabbi and scholar who served as Gaon of the Talmudic academy of Pumbedita during the early 11th century.

) He is also commonly known as the " GRYZ ", an acronym for Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Zev (" genius rabbi Isaac Wolf ").

When a rabbi is accused of heresy: the stance of the Gaon of Vilna in the Emden-Eibeschuetz controversy in Me ’ ah She ’ arim ( 2001 ) 251-263

He belonged to a family of rabbis, the most noted among them being Rabbi Israel Palota, his great-grandfather, Rabbi Amram ( called " The Gaon ," who died in Safed, Palestine, where he had spent the last years of his life ), and Rabbi Chayyim Kitssee, rabbi in Erza, who was his great-granduncle.

* Hai Gaon ( 939-1038 ), a rabbi of the 10th and 11th centuries