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Keywords: gaon, babylonia, talmud, academies, exilarch

(singular: Gaon), heads of the talmudic academies in Babylonia from the seventh to eleventh centuries A.D.

Torah luminaries; more specifically, the heads of the Babylonian academies after the composition of the *Talmud

pl. of *gaon

Keywords: somayach, geonic, ohr, edu, extends

The Geonic period extends from about 690 C.E. until the 11th century. The first Geonim or Ohr Somayach International www.ohr.edu