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Pumbedita (Jewish
Babylonian Aramaic: פוּם בְּדִיתָא Pūm Bəḏīṯāʾ, "Mouth of the Bedita") was an
ancient city
located in modern-day Iraq. It is
known for...
- theologian,
rabbi and
scholar who
served as Gaon of the
Talmudic academy of
Pumbedita during the
early 11th century. He was born in 939 and died on
March 28...
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presidents of the two
great Babylonian Talmudic Academies of Sura and
Pumbedita, in the
Abbasid Caliphate. They were
generally accepted as the spiritual...
- Palaestina. A
number of
significant Talmudic academies, such as the Nehardea,
Pumbedita, and Sura academies, were
established in Mesopotamia, and many important...
- The
Pumbedita Academy or
Pumbedita Yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבת פומבדיתא;
sometimes Pumbeditha, Pumpedita, Pumbedisa) was a
Talmudic academy in
Pumbedita, an...
- an area
between the
rivers Tigris and
Euphrates and
primarily between Pumbedita (modern Fallujah, a town west of Baghdad), and Sura, a town ****her south...
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important yeshiva—the Sura Academy—which,
together with the
yeshivas in
Pumbedita and Nehardea, gave rise to the
Babylonian Talmud.
According to Sherira...
- Dean of the
Yeshiva at
Pumbedita. Rav
Yosef (d. 323),
disciple of Rav Huna and Rav Yehudah. Dean of the
Yeshiva at
Pumbedita. Rav
Zeira (Israel) Rav...
- Jerusalem, Sura, and
Pumbedita; the
yeshiva of
Jerusalem would later relocate to Cairo, and the
yeshivot of Sura and
Pumbedita to Baghdad, but retain...
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Persia and
major Jewish academies of
learning were
established in Sura and
Pumbedita that
became cornerstones of
Jewish scholarship.
Several individuals of...
