Editing Saadia Gaon (section)

===Influence===
Saadia's influence upon the [[Jews of Yemen]] has been exceptionally great, as many of Saadia's extant works were preserved by the community and used extensively by them. The basis for the [[Baladi-rite prayer|Yemenite ''tiklāl'']] is founded upon the prayer format edited originally by Saadia.<ref name= "TobiY2000">{{cite book |editor-last1=Tobi|editor-first1=Yosef|editor-last2=Seri|editor-first2=Shalom|title=Yalqut Teman - Lexicon of Yemenite Jewry|publisher=E'eleh betamar |date=2000 |location=Tel-Aviv|page=190 |language=he |oclc=609321911}}</ref> The Yemenite Jewish community also adopted thirteen penitential verse written by Saadia for [[Yom Kippur]], as well as the liturgical poems composed by him for [[Hoshana Rabbah]], the seventh day of [[Sukkot]].<ref name= "TobiY2000" />

Saadia's Judeo-Arabic translation of the Pentateuch, the ''Tafsir'', was copied by the Yemenite Jews in nearly all their handwritten codices. They originally studied Saadia's major work of philosophy, ''Beliefs and Opinions'', in its original Judeo-Arabic,<ref name= "TobiY2000" /> although by the early 20th-century, only fragments survived.<ref>{{cite book|last=Saadia Gaon|author-link=Saadia Gaon|translator=Yosef Qafih|title=Book of Beliefs & Opinions (Sefer ha-Nivḥar ba-emunot uva-deʻot) |publisher=Mekhkon Mishnat ha-Rambam|year=2011|location=Kiryat Ono|page=5 |language=he|oclc=989874916}}</ref>