Pumbedita Academy information

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

city of Fallujah, Iraq. It is known for having hosted the Pumbedita Academy. The city of Pumbedita was said to have possessed a Jewish population since the...

Jewish religious academies, which were mainly situated in an area between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates and primarily between Pumbedita (modern Fallujah...

known in Jewish texts as "Babylonia". With Pumbedita Academy, it was one of the two major Jewish academies from the year 225 CE at the beginning of the...

for several centuries to one of the most important Jewish academies, the Pumbedita Academy, which from 258 to 1038 along with Sura (ar-Hira) was one of...

famous academies were the Pumbedita Academy and the Sura Academy. Major yeshivot were also located at Nehardea and Mahuza. The Talmudic Yeshiva Academies became...

for a year (474), director of the Sura Academy. Simultaneously, Rabbah Jose served as head of the Pumbedita academy. Ravina served as leader of the Jewish...

ben David (Hebrew: חזקיה בן דוד) was the last Gaon of the Talmudic academy in Pumbedita from 1038–1040. Hezekiah ben David was a member of the House of Exilarchs;...

299), disciple of Abba Arikha and Samuel of Nehardea. Dean of the Pumbedita Academy. Adda bar Ahavah, (3rd and 4th centuries), disciple of Abba Arikha...

another student of Rav and Shmuel, Judah ben Ezekiel, founded the Pumbedita Academy. However, Judah ben Ezekiel and his followers regarded Rav Huna as...

the academy of Pumbedita was relocated to Mahuza during the time of the Amora sage Rava Nehardea Academy (in Nehardea) Pumbedita Academy (in Pumbedita for...

authority to appoint civil judges, and heads of the rabbinical academies at Sura, Pumbedita and Nehardea. Bostanai was the posthumous son of a former exilarch...

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...

Gaon, is a responsum penned in the late 10th century (987 CE) in the Pumbedita Academy by Sherira ben Hanina, the Chief Rabbi and scholar of Babylonian Jewry...

representative of Islamic mystical ideas of piety of Sufism. Hai Gaon of Pumbedita Academy begins a new phase in Jewish scholarship and investigation (hakirah);...

On Nehemiah's death in 968 C.E., Sherira was elected gaon of the Academy of Pumbedita, soon after which he appointed his son, Hai, chief judge in his stead...

Ravina II. He succeeded R. Geviha as head of the Academy of Pumbedita. He headed the Pumbedita academy for ten years until his death on 443. Ketuvot 95b;...

Gaon) were the presidents of the two great Babylonian Talmudic Academies of Sura and Pumbedita, in the Abbasid Caliphate. They were generally accepted as...

extended Yeshiva vacation is Rava, who allowed his students at the Pumbedita Academy to take off the months of Nissan and Tishrei for the purposes of farming...

His father, Kaylil, was the brother of Rabbah bar Nahmani, a teacher at Pumbedita. Abaye's real name was Naḥmani, after his grandfather. Left an orphan...

9th-century rabbi of the Geonic period, who served as the Gaon (dean) of Pumbedita Academy from 890 to 897, and was known for his anti-Karaitic stance. Prior...

Hanan of Iskya, or Hanan of Ishqiya) was rector of the Talmudical academy at Pumbedita, 589-608. He was succeeded by Mari ben R. Dimi after his death in...

Quarterly Review," xii. 115). Baghdad belonged rather to Pumbedita Academy than to Sura Academy, but the heads of the Jewish community in both places came...

died, Yosef was expected to take Judah's place as the gaon of the Pumbedita Academy, due to his excellent knowledge of rabbinic law (as opposed to Rabbah...

up until his death in 890. Zemah's father, Paltoi ben Abaye, was the Pumbedita Gaon from 841-858, an office which Zemah served himself, after the death...