-
Pumbedita (sometimes Pumbeditha, Pumpedita, or Pumbedisa;
Imperial Aramaic: פוּמְבְּדִיתָא Pūmbəḏīṯāʾ, "The
Mouth of the River,") was an
ancient city...
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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...
- Dean of the
Yeshiva at
Pumbedita. Rav
Yosef (d. 323),
disciple of Rav Huna and Rav Yehudah. Dean of the
Yeshiva at
Pumbedita. Rav
Zeira (Israel) Rav...
- an area
between the
rivers Tigris and
Euphrates and
primarily between Pumbedita (modern Fallujah, a town west of Baghdad), and Sura, a town ****her south...
-
presidents of the two
great Babylonian Talmudic Academies of Sura and
Pumbedita, in the
Abbasid Caliphate. They were
generally accepted as the spiritual...
-
important yeshiva—the Sura Academy—which,
together with the
yeshivas in
Pumbedita and Nehardea, gave rise to the
Babylonian Talmud.
According to Sherira...
- now
southern Iraq, a
region known in
Jewish texts as "Babylonia". With
Pumbedita Academy, it was one of the two
major Jewish academies from the year 225...
-
aphorism to the
reasoning for
which the
sages of
Pumbedita were
evidently famous: "Are you from
Pumbedita,
where they push an
elephant through the eye of...
- Palaestina. A
number of
significant Talmudic academies, such as the Nehardea,
Pumbedita, and Sura academies, were
established in Mesopotamia, and many important...
- 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 28...
