Kitāb taḥṣīl ash-sharāʾiʿ as-samāʿīyah

work by Saʿadia ben Joseph

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  • In Saʿadia ben Joseph: Saʿadia’s works.

    (“Refutation of Ibn Sākawayhī”) and Kitāb taḥṣīl ash-sharāʾiʿ as-samāʿīyah (“Book Concerning the Sources of the Irrational Laws”). In the latter work the Gaon contends that matters pertaining to the irrational commandments of the Mosaic Law may never be decided by means of analogy but only by the regulations transmitted through…

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