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

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 farther 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...

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...

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...

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...

Classical authors cited the name as "Pallacottas". The name in Aramaic is Pumbedita. The region of Fallujah lies near the ancient Sassanid Persian town of...

Palaestina. A number of significant Talmudic academies, such as the Nehardea, Pumbedita, and Sura academies, were established in Mesopotamia, and many important...

Persia and major Jewish academies of learning were established in Sura and Pumbedita that became cornerstones of Jewish scholarship. Several individuals of...

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

separately, which allowed the Gaon of the Talmudic academies of Sura and Pumbedita to compete with the exilarch for power and influence, later contributing...

from roughly 500 CE to 1038 CE. The two most famous academies were the Pumbedita Academy and the Sura Academy. Major yeshivot were also located at Nehardea...

Jerusalem, Sura, and Pumbedita; the yeshiva of Jerusalem would later relocate to Cairo, and the yeshivot of Sura and Pumbedita to Baghdad, but retain...

in Babylonia around 500 CE and primarily from the academies of Sura, Pumbedita, and Nehardea, is the more commonly cited version when referring to the...

Israel in Jerusalem Hanan of Iskiya, rector of the Talmudical academy at Pumbedita Hanan the Egyptian, 2nd century tannaic sage Hanan bar Rava, 3rd century...

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...

Nusaybin), Mahoza (al-Mada'in, just to the south of what is now Baghdad), Pumbedita (near present-day al Anbar Governorate), and the Sura Academy, probably...

politician from Pennsylvania Hezekiah Gaon, last Gaon of the Yeshiva of Pumbedita, 1038–1040 Hezekiah Hunter (1837–1894), teacher, minister, and politician...

member of the same college, who later became president of the academy at Pumbedita. Ashi married the daughter of Rami bar Hama, or Rami b. Abba according...

short distance from the modern city of Fallujah (formerly the site of Pumbedita). As the seat of the exilarch, Nehardea traced its origin back to King...

became home to many important Talmudic yeshivas such as the Nehardea, Pumbedita and Sura Academies, and the Babylonian Talmud was compiled there. The...

his mother was Miriam, who let her hair grow long and was called Stada. Pumbedita says about her: "She was unfaithful to her husband." On the eve of Passover...

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...

Rabbis Geonim, presidents of the two great Talmudic Academies of Sura and Pumbedita Vilna Gaon, known as the Gaon of Vilnius Gaon Music Chart, record chart...

Sar on the Tigris, and is mentioned together with Maḥuza, Safonia, and Pumbedita, although it must not be inferred that these cities were near one another...

writer Mar R. Yanka, alternative name of Natronai ben Nehemiah, Gaon of Pumbedita from 719 to 730 All pages with titles beginning with Yanka This page or...

"geniuses") presided over the two major Babylonian Academies of Sura and Pumbedita; 650–1038. The Rishonim ("firsts") are the rabbis of the late medieval...