Venue: Yeshivat Har Etzion Yeshivat Har Etzion

History:

10 - 15th Centuries CE,  5th - 7th Centruries CE 

Machshava:

Mesorah,  Rabbinic Authority,  Rambam 

Collections: Rabbi Woolf Rishonim

Description

In this shiur we discuss the transition from the Amoraim to the Geonim. We examine why the Geonim did not publish a comprehensive commentary to the Talmud, and the forces that led to the era of the Rishonim and the writing of just such commentaries.---Given at Yeshuvat Har Etzion