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parasangs to the west of Baghdad.
Talmudic academies in
Babylonia Also
Pumbeditha, Pumpedita, or Pumbedisa. See Schremer,
Adiel (1998). "From the Onomasticon...
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Pumbedita Academy or
Pumbedita Yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבת פומבדיתא;
sometimes Pumbeditha, Pumpedita, Pumbedisa) was a
Talmudic academy in Pumbedita, an unidentified...
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Madreigat Ha'Adam
Shemonah Perakim The
Geonim are the
rabbis of Sura and
Pumbeditha in
Babylon (650 – 1250 CE) : She'iltoth of Acha'i [Gaon]
Halachot Gedolot...
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mother was
Miriam "Mary" the
dresser of women's hair. As we say in
Pumbeditha, "She has been
false to "satath da" her husband." (b.
Shabbat 104b) Peter...
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Sherira bar Ḥanina Gaon שרירא בר חנינא
Title Gaon of the
Academy of
Pumbeditha Personal life Born
Sherira bar
Hanina c. 906 CE Died c. 1006 CE Children...
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Talmud by
Rabbi Shmuel bar Bisna, a
member of the
Talmudic academy in
Pumbeditha, who
traveled to
Margiana (present-day Merv in Turkmenistan). The presence...
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Jewish traveller Benjamin of
Tudela in 1164
visited "el-Anbar
which is
Pumbeditha in Nehardea" and said it had 3,000 Jews
living there. The
region pla****...
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centers of
Jewish life were in
Jerusalem and
Tiberias (Syria), Sura and
Pumbeditha (Iraq). The
heads of
these law
schools were the Gaonim, who were consulted...
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Piyyutim (classical
Jewish poetry) The
Geonim are the
rabbis of Sura and
Pumbeditha, in
Babylon (650–1250) : She'iltoth of
Achai Gaon
Halachoth Gedoloth Emunoth...
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Talmud is
mostly derived from the
Talmud of the
academy of
Pumbeditha. He
argues that the
Pumbeditha academy never produced Talmud on the
Mishnaic orders of...
