Pumbedita
Eras of the Halakha Pumbedita sometimes Pumbeditha , Pumpedita , or Pumbedisa was the name of a city ... of the academy of Pumpedita. Are you from Pumbedita, where they make an elephant pass through ..
Naresh (city)
Naresh was a city in Babylonia , situated near Sura city Sura on a canal. It may be identical with the city of Nahras or Nahar Sar on the Tigris , and is mentioned together with Ma?uza , Safonia , and ...
Hanan of Iskiya
Hanan of Iskiya was rector of the Talmudical academy at Pumbedita , 589 608 . Hormizd IV having persecuted the Christians and the Jews, the Talmudical academies of Sura and Pumbedita were closed, their masters ..
Rava (amora)
of Pumbedita see Talmudic Academies in Babylonia . There he became famous for his debates with his ... of the Yeshiva of Pumbedita , retired, the position went to Abaye . At that point, Rava returned ..
Hezekiah Gaon
Hezekiah Gaon was gaon of the Talmudic academies in Babylonia Talmudic academy at Pumbedita from 1038 ... of Pumbedita. Bibliography Rabad, Seder ha ?abbalah Gans, ?ema? Dawid, i. Grätz ..
Mahuza
, founded by Rava amora Rava , as well as the original seat of the Exilarch . See also Nehardea Pumbedita ..
Solomon (exilarch)
from Pumbedita , though this was contrary to traditional usage. According to Grätz , this scholar ..
Rabbah bar Nahmani
into a priestly family, and studied at both the academies in Sura city Sura and Pumbedita . He ... his students in a good mood. Rabbah succeeded Judah ben Ezekiel as head of the academy of Pumbedita ..
Hezekiah (disambiguation)
of the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia Yeshiva of Pumbedita 1038 1040. Hezekiah Brenstick , a nineteenth ..
Dodai ben Nahman
Dodai ben Nahman was a History of the Jews in Iraq Babylonian Jewish scholar of the eighth century CE and gaon of the Talmudic academies in Babylonia Talmudic academy at Pumbedita 761 764 . Little is ...
Gaon (Hebrew)
Gaon Pride of Late medieval and modern Hebrew for genius may refer to One of the Geonim , that is to say the heads of the two major academies, at Pumbedita and Sura city Sura , and later in Baghdad, d ...
Talmudic Academies in Babylonia
and Pumbedita the Sura academy was originally dominant, but its authority waned towards the end of the Geonic period and the Pumbedita Gaonate gained ascendancy. ref cf. Louis Ginzberg in Geonica . ref ..
Judah ben Ezekiel
of his own at Pumbedita. He died there in 299. Transmits Rav s and Samuel s sayings Judah possessed ... of instruction in the school which he built up at Pumbedita by emphasizing the need of an exact differentiation ..
David ben Zakkai (exilarch)
of Pumbedita the only center of the Babylonian Jews , thereby threatening the existence of the sister academy of Sura . He, as well as the Academy of Pumbedita, refused to recognize David as exilarch ..
Amora
. Dean of the Yeshiva at Pumbedita . Joshua ben Levi early 3rd century , headed the school of Lod Lydda ... Yehudah d. 299 , disciple of Rav and Shmuel. Dean of the Yeshiva at Pumbedita. Adda bar Ahavah , 3rd ..
Geonim
great Talmudic Academies in Babylonia rabbinical colleges of Sura city Sura and Pumbedita ... gaon of Pumbedita was Hezekiah Gaon , who was tortured to death in 1040 hence the activity of the Geonim ..
Nehardea
academy was taken by Pumbedita . Nahman ben Jacob Nehardea, however, soon regained its importance ... , which was of considerable prominence at that time, and some to that of Pumbedita . About the middle ..
Bebai ben Abaye
, and presiding judge in Pumbedita , ref Yevamot 75b Ketuvim 85a. ref where his father had directed ..
Mar Ukba
Mar Ukba , an exilarch at Baghdad in the first half of the tenth century the second exilarch to die in banishment. When Kohen ?ede? II was appointed gaon of Pumbedita he became involved in a controver ...
Shemariah ben Elhanan
from Pumbedita . This opinion, at least with regard to Shemariah b. Elhanan, is confirmed by a fragment ..
Natronai ben Nehemiah
distinguish Natronai ben Hilai Eras of the Halakha Natronai ben Nehemiah Hebrew ??????? ?? ????? was Gaon of Pumbedita from 719 to 730 son in law of the exilarch ?asdai I . Vain of his family connecti ...
Nahshon ben Zadok
order, as did his contemporary Gaon ?ema? ben Paltoi of Pumbedita , but in the order of the tractates ..
Aaron ibn Sargado
Aaron ibn Sargado was a tenth century AD gaon Jewish religious leader in Pumbedita , Babylonia. He was a son of Joseph ha Kohen . According to the chronicle of Sherira , Sargado officiated from 943 to 960 ..
Abaye
. His father, Kaylil, was the brother of Rabbah bar Nachmani , a teacher at the Academy of Pumbedita ... of whom successively became presidents of the Pumbedita Academy. When Joseph died 324 , this dignity ..
Petachiah of Ratisbon
in Nisibis . From there he travelled to Mesopotamia , visiting Nineveh , Sura , Pumbedita , and Baghdad ..
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