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Amram bar
Sheshna or
Amram Gaon (Jewish
Babylonian Aramaic: עמרם בר ששנא or Hebrew: עמרם גאון; died 875) was a gaon or head of the
Academy of Sura in...
- R. Mari Gaon (Natronai ben Hilai) – 853–861
Amram bar
Sheshna (Amram Gaon,
Amram ben R.
Sheshna) (Author of the Siddur) – 861–872
Nahshon ben R. Zadok...
- w****days, Sabbaths, and
festivals (apart from the
prayer book of
Amram ben
Sheshna, of
which there is no
authoritative text). The text also
contains liturgical...
- The
practice of
kapparot is
mentioned for the
first time by
Amram ben
Sheshna of Sura
Academy in
Babylonia in 670 and
later by
Natronai ben Hilai, also...
- ("Kaddish for an individual"),
attributed to ninth-century Gaon
Amram bar
Sheshna, and the use of
kavanah prayer,
asking heavenly beings to join with the...
-
earliest existing codification of the
prayerbook was
drawn up by
Amram ben
Sheshna of Sura
Academy in Sawad, the
Abbasid Caliphate, an area
known as "Babylonia"...
- no
extant m****cript
contains this reference.
Moses b. Jacob,
Amram b.
Sheshna,
Natronai b. Hilai, and
Saadia b.
Joseph attest to its po****r use by the...
- of the
Academy of Sura from 874 to 882, in
succession to Mar
Amram ben
Sheshna. He
wrote explanations to
difficult words in the Talmud, not in alphabetical...
- with life.[according to whom?] He
published a
collection of 68 poems,
Sheshna Kavyo (1938),
expanded to 73 in a
second edition (1951).
Visheshna Kavyo...
- back to Sura,
where he was
elected head of the Gaonate,
succeeding Rav
Sheshna. Most
scholars (particularly Rav
Sherira Gaon)
agree that
Jacob served...
