For other Amoraic sages of Babylonia with the name "Rav Kahana", see Rav Kahana.
Rav Kahana (III) (Hebrew: רב כהנא מפום נהרא, read as Rav Kahana Me-Pum-Nahara, lit. "Rabbi Kahana of Pum-Nahara"; appearing in the Talmud merely as Rav Kahana) was a Babylonian rabbi, of the third and fourth generation of amoraim, who headed the Yeshiva of Pum-Nahara.
with the name "RavKahana", see RavKahana. RavKahana (III) (Hebrew: רב כהנא מפום נהרא, read as RavKahana Me-Pum-Nahara, lit. "Rabbi Kahana of Pum-Nahara";...
college of Naresh near Sura, which was directed by Rav Papa, Rava's disciple. Ashi's teacher was RavKahanaIII, a member of the same college, who later became...
that KahanaIII gave his funeral oration to Rav Zevid of Nehardea at Pum-Nahara, a funeral oration, most probably in conjunction with the fact that Rav Kahana...
Abba, also known as Abemar, son of Huna III Nathan, son of Abba Mar Kahana I, son of Abba Huna IV, son of Mar Kahana I, died 441. Pahda, a non-Davidic usurper...
Rabbah. According to Jellinek, this midrash is older than the Pesikta de-RavKahana, which (he holds) has borrowed entire passages from it. Theodor has shown...
"rabbati" (the larger) to distinguish it from the earlier Pesikta de-RavKahana (PdRK). Pesikta Rabbati has five entire piskot (sections) in common with...
Rav, his senior schoolmate under Judah haNasi. Johanan kept up a correspondence with Rav, and addressed him as "our master in Babylonia." After Rav's...
Midrash Rabbah, the Midrash Tanhuma, and the two Pesiktot (Pesikta De-RavKahana or Pesikta Rabbati), the Midrash on Psalms, the Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer...
latter having been a fellow-pupil of Rav Yosef, whereas Bebai ben Abaye was a contemporary of Nahman ben Isaac, KahanaIII, Pappi, and Huna ben Joshua. As...
Solomon bar Ḥasdai induced the latter to pass over Aḥa, and to appoint Natroi Kahana ben Amuna, Aḥa's underling, a man considerably his inferior in learning...
oldest works of midrash, along with Genesis Rabbah and the Pesikta de-RavKahana. The midrash is quoted, perhaps for the first time, by Chananel ben Chushiel...
Creation, and will let them bathe in rivers of milk." The Pesikta of RavKahana includes extended interpretations of the one who brings "good news" in...
disobedience of Halakha. Rav Paltoi died in 858, and was succeeded by Aha Kahana ben Mar Rav. Paltoi's son Zemah ben Paltoi was the Pumbedita Gaon from 872 - 890...
passages Sifra debbe Rav. Maimonides, in the introduction to his Yad ha-Ḥazaḳah, and others have declared that the title Sifra debbe Rav indicates Abba Arikha...
apocalypses of later centuries and the midrash literature. Pesikta de-RavKahana 5:9 here the four craftsmen are listed as Elijah, the King Messiah, Melchizedek...
specifically the Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli), compiled in the 5th century by Rav Ashi and Ravina II. There is also an earlier collection known as the Jerusalem...
other midrashim, as, for example, all the Midrash Rabbot, Pesiḳta de-Rab Kahana, Pesikta Rabbati, and in the midrashim to Book of Samuel, Proverbs, and...
Koenigsberger, 1894 Avot deRabbi Natan ch. 18; see also Gittin 67a Pesikta de-RavKahana, Parah, ed. S. Buber, 39b Siegfried, Philo, p. 168 compare D. Hoffmann...
Assembly. Since Nehemiah himself was a member, Samuel b. Marta, a pupil of Rav, quoted a phrase used by Nehemiah in his prayer (1:7) as originating with...
headcoverings Shuli Mualem, an Israeli politician, wearing a cap Politician Batya Kahana Dror wearing a headscarf that does not cover all of her hair A 19th century...
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