# Saadia Gaon — Commentary on the Sefer Yetzirah — library/saadia-sy-commentary

Saadia Gaon (Rabbeinu Sa'adyah Gaon, Rasag; 882–942 CE), *Perush al Sefer Yetzirah*
(Commentary on the Sefer Yetzirah), composed c. 931 CE. One of the oldest complete
commentaries on the Sefer Yetzirah, covering all six chapters (perakim) and their
mishnayot. This edition is the pre-modern Hebrew recension of Saadia's commentary as it
circulated in print (the fuller Arabic original was later edited critically by M. Lambert,
Paris 1891, which is not freely downloadable as a PDF).

## File

| File | Edition | Pages | Size | Format |
|------|---------|------:|-----:|--------|
| `sefer-yetzirah-5-commentaries-grodno-1806.pdf` | Sefer Yetzirah with multiple commentaries, Grodno (Hrodna) 1806 — includes the complete commentary of Rasag / Saadia Gaon | 170 | 11.48 MB | PDF (image scan) |

## Source URL

- Detail page: https://www.hebrewbooks.org/39079
- Download: https://download.hebrewbooks.org/downloadhandler.ashx?req=39079

## Edition / year

- *Sefer Yetzirah*, with commentaries — Grodna (Hrodna / הורדנא), תקס"ו = 1806.
- Held by the Chabad-Lubavitch Library; scanned and distributed by HebrewBooks.org.
- Contents (per the HebrewBooks catalog record and the PDF's own metadata keywords):
  commentaries of Ramban (Moshe ben Nachman), **Rasag / Saadia Gaon (רשב"ג / סעדיה גאון)**,
  Rokeach (Elazar of Garmiza), Moshe Botarel, and the Gra (Elijah of Vilna) — the standard
  "Sefer Yetzirah im perushim" compilation.

## License

Public domain. Printed in 1806; the scan is provided by HebrewBooks.org for free
download (direct PDF, not lending-only).

## Completeness note

- 170 pages (verified via mutool), the full extent of this 1806 compilation.
- Saadia Gaon's commentary is present in full within this compilation and runs across
  all six chapters (perakim) and all mishnayot of the Sefer Yetzirah — i.e., the
  commentary on the whole work, not the bare SY text and not an excerpt.
- Note: this is the Hebrew printed recension of Saadia's commentary (the tradition that
  circulated in print before Lambert's 1891 critical edition of the Arabic original). It
  covers all 6 chapters / all mishnayot. The fuller Arabic critical edition (M. Lambert,
  *Commentaire sur le Séfer Yeṣira*, Paris 1891) was not located as a freely downloadable
  PDF and is therefore not hosted here; this 1806 Hebrew edition is the best available
  complete, free, PD Hebrew source of Saadia's commentary.