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. He was one of the most prominent opponents of Rambam's philosophical works. When the attacks on Rambam's works culminated in a public burning of wagonloads of Talmud by Christian authorities, Rabbeinu Yonah publicly admitted his error in involving non-Jews and gave Rambam a prominent and revered place in his teaching. It is surmised that this turn of events motivated Rabbeinu Yonah to write Sha'arei Teshuvah.
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