2 Quotes & Sayings By Samuel Hanagid

The first Jewish scholar to settle in Babylonia at the beginning of the Second Temple period. He translated the Bible into Hebrew and composed commentaries on it. He also wrote treatises on theology, law, the Torah, and the prophets. He was a disciple of Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai, who appointed him head of his yeshiva in Yavneh.