Hanoch ben Moses
Hanoch bar Moses was a rabbi of al-Andalus. Almost all of the information we have about him comes from the Sefer ha-Qabbalah by Abraham ibn Daud.
Life events
Along with his parents, Moses ben Hanoch and his wife, Hanoch was captured by the Moorish pirate ibn Rumahis and brought to Córdoba. R. Hanoch eventually succeeded his father as rabbi and rosh yeshiva there, although for a time he faced opposition by Joseph ibn Abitur and by the latter's patron, Jacob ibn Jau, the lay leader of the Jewish community of the Caliphate of Cordoba. Hanoch was respectable by everyone that even his bitter adversary ibn Abitur couldn't help but express his admiration for him, "I bring the heavens and earth as my witnesses that there is none equal to R. Hanoch, from Spain to the academies of Babylon."His best-known student was Samuel ibn Naghrela.
Ibn Daud reports that relations between Hanoch and Hai ben Sherira were strained since the increasing stature of the Spanish yeshivot led to a lessening of their communities' financial contributions to the Talmudic academies in Babylonia. Indeed, Hanoch seems to have corresponded only rarely with the Babylonian geonim. However, Hai demonstrated his respect for Hanoch by honoring his excommunion of Joseph ibn Abitur and refusing the latter an audience.
R. Hanoch left no written works, although there are some extant responsa between him and Hai, as well as between him and the then-gaon in the Land of Israel, Samuel ben Hofni.