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Jonah ben Abraham Gerondi (Hebrew: יוֹנָה בֶּן־אַבְרָהָם גִירוֹנְדִי , romanized: Yōnāh bēn-ʾAvrāhām Gīrōndī, lit. 'Jonah son of Abraham the Gironan'; died 1264), also known as Jonah of Girona and Rabbeinu Yonah (רבינו יונה), was a Catalan rabbi and moralist, cousin of Nahmanides.
Gerona, a small city in Catalonia, Spain, was known as a "mother-city in Israel ," because it was the birth place of some of the greatest Jewish scholars in the Diaspora, whose writings and teachings still serve as beacons of light.
Yonah Gerondi (Rabbeinu Yonah) was a Spanish rabbi, talmudist, and ethicist. His best-known work is Sha'arei Teshuvah (Gates of Repentance), a comprehensive work on repentance. He also wrote chiddushim (talmudic novellae) on a number of tractates, quoted by contemporaries and later authors.
JONAH BEN ABRAHAM GERONDI (c. 1200–1263), Spanish rabbi, author, and moralist. In his youth Gerondi studied in the French yeshivot under Moses b. Shneur and his brother *Samuel of Evreux, and later under *Solomon b. Abraham of Montpellier.
Sha'arei Teshuvah (Gates of Repentance) is one of three works, along with Iggeret ha-Teshuvah and Sefer HaYirah, that belong to the standard Jewish ethical works of the Middle Ages. It was written by Rabbeinu Yonah Gerondi, reportedly to atone for his earlier attacks on Maimonides and to emphasize his repentance.
Author:Rabbeinu Yonah Gerondi. Composed: c.1200 – c.1260 CE. A commentary by the author of Shaarei Teshuvah focusing on the ethical and religious teachings learned from Pirkei Avot.
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By: Solomon Schechter, Peter Wiernik. Spanish rabbi and moralist of the thirteenth century; died in Toledo, Spain, Nov., 1263; a cousin of Naḥmanides. He came from Gerona, in Catalonia. Gerondi was the most prominent pupil of Solomon of Montpellier, the leader of the opponents of Maimonides' philosophical works, and was one of the signers of ...
