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Pumbedita (sometimes Pumbeditha, Pumpedita, or Pumbedisa; Imperial Aramaic: פוּמְבְּדִיתָא Pūmbəḏīṯāʾ, "The Mouth of the River,") was an ancient city located...

Pumbedita Academy or Pumbedita Yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבת פומבדיתא; sometimes Pumbeditha, Pumpedita, Pumbedisa) was a yeshiva in present-day Iraq, called Babylon...

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...

(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...

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 played...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

the area, leading to about 40 years of great prosperity. Paltoi Gaon of Pumbeditha (842–858) sent to these communities the entire Talmud with commentary...

particularly fond of applying to the two great Rabbanite schools in Sura and Pumbeditha. This impression, however, entirely passes away when we have gone through...

Nehemiah ben Kohen Tzedek was the head (gaon) of the Academy of Pumbeditha from 960 to 968. Nehemiah was the son of Kohen Tzedek Kahana ben R. Joseph,...

years and was succeeded by Zemah ben Paltoi. "Abba ben Mar Ammi, Gaon of Pumbeditha". Retrieved 2020-05-28. Eliakim Carmoly, תולדות גדולי ישראל (History of...

(Rabbanite and Karaite) Bahshamiyya Mu'tazila was adopted in Sura and Pumbeditha Academies of Babylon, in varying degrees, from the 9th century onwards...

("lethal/deadly woman"), since she married three men, all of whom died: Rehaba of Pumbeditha [he], Rab Isaac, the son of Rabbah bar bar Hana, and Abaye. As shown by...