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Pumbedita (sometimes
Pumbeditha, Pumpedita, or Pumbedisa;
Imperial Aramaic: פוּמְבְּדִיתָא Pūmbəḏīṯāʾ, "The
Mouth of the River,") was an
ancient city located...
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Pumbedita Academy or
Pumbedita Yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבת פומבדיתא;
sometimes Pumbeditha, Pumpedita, Pumbedisa) was a
yeshiva in present-day Iraq,
called Babylon...
- (Hebrew: שרירא גאון; c. 906 – c. 1006) was the gaon of the
Academy of
Pumbeditha. He was one of the most
prominent Geonim of his period, and the father...
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Madreigat Ha'Adam
Shemonah Perakim The
Geonim are the
rabbis of Sura and
Pumbeditha, in
Babylon (650 - 1250) : She'iltoth of Acha'i [Gaon]
Halachot Gedolot...
- The
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...
-
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...
- Gaon, (Hebrew: צמח גאון בר מר רב פולטוי) (died 890 CE), was the Gaon of
Pumbeditha from 872 up
until his
death in 890. Zemah's father,
Paltoi ben Abaye,...
-
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****...
- Sura from 889 to 895
Zemah ben
Paltoi (died 890), Gaon at
Academy at
Pumbeditha Jacob ben
Hayyim Zemah (17th century),
Portuguese kabalist and physician...
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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...
