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     280 – 352 CE), who is exclusively referred to in the Talmud by the name Rava (רבא‎), was a Babylonian rabbi who belonged to the fourth generation of amoraim...
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  • honorific name Raba, Rava, or Amora-Rava Rava (surname) Another name for the wine grape Ravat blanc Rava, also Sooji, Suji or Bombay rava an Indian term for...
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    Amoraim (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אמוראים [ʔamoraˈʔim], singular Amora אמורא [ʔamoˈra]; "those who say" or "those who speak over the people", or "spokesmen")...
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  • rabbis practiced "magic" themselves or taught the subject. For instance, Rava (amora) created a golem and sent it to Rav Zeira, and Hanina and Hoshaiah studied...
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  • second-generation Amora Rav Chisda, and the wife of the third-generation Amora Rami bar Hama. After her husband's death, she married another Amora, Rava. She is...
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    Abaye (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַבַּיֵי, romanized: abbayē) was an amora of the fourth generation of the Talmudic academies in Babylonia. He was born...
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  • rabbis practiced "magic" themselves or taught the subject. For instance, Rava (amora) created a golem and sent it to Rav Zeira, and Hanina and Hoshaiah studied...
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    al-Mada'in; the academy of Pumbedita was relocated to Mahuza during the time of Rava Amora Nehardea Academy (in Nehardea) Pumbedita Academy (in Pumbedita for most...
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    Ḥanan bar Rava (חנן/חנא/חנין בר רב/א) or Ḥanan bar Abba (חנן בר א/בא) was a Talmudic sage and second-generation Babylonian Amora. He lived in Israel, moved...
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  • Rava, Amora in Babylonia (c.280–352) Judah III, scholar, son of Gamaliel IV, Nasi (290–320) Abaye, Talmudist in Babylonia (?–337) Rabbi Jonah, Amora in...
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  • them: Rabbah bar Nahmani ("Rabbah"), Rav Yosef b. Hiyya, Abaye and Amora sage Rava, Savora sages Rabbah Jose and Simuna, and Geonim Rab Rabbah Gaon and...
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  • bar Yaakov. He had a son of the name of Rava (Rava b. Joseph b. Hama), who became one of the most prominent Amora sages and the head of the academy of Pumbedita...
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  • known simply as Rabbah, Babylonian rabbi known in the Talmud as an Amora Rava (amora) (280–352), rabbi and Talmudic scholar Bob Raba (born 1955), American...
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  • Abdima Bar Ḥama. Babylonian amora of the fourth century; contemporary of Rav Safra and of Hiyya bar Rabbah bar Nahmani; also of Rava, before whom he and his...
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  • Rami = R. Ami) was a Babylonian amora of the third generation. He was a pupil of Rav Chisda, and a fellow student of Rava, who was somewhat his junior....
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  • the great Amora Rav. His father-in-law appears under the name "R. Kahana the father-in-law of R. Mesharshiya". His principle teacher was Rava, and they...
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  • Rav Adda bar Ahavah was a Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora of the second generation (third and fourth centuries), frequently quoted...
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  • academy of Pumbedita was relocated to Mahuza during the time of the Amora sage Rava Nehardea Academy (in Nehardea) Pumbedita Academy (in Pumbedita for...
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  • spelled: Hananyah; Hebrew: רב חנינא or חנניא‎) was second and third generation Amora Sage of the Land of Israel. He was a student of Rabbi Yannai and R. Yochanan...
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  • the academy of Pumbedita was relocated to Māḥōzē during the time of the Amora Rava Nehardea Academy (in Nehardea) Pumbedita Academy (in Pumbedita for most...
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  • lit. "Rav Zevid II") was an Amora of Babylon of the fourth and fifth generation of the Amora era. He was a disciple of Rava and a scholarly opponent of...
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  • Babylonian rabbi, of the fifth generation of amoraim. He was a student of Rava and Abaye. After the death of his teachers he founded a school at Naresh...
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  • (Hebrew: הלל נשיאה, Hillel the Nasi), also known simply as Hillel, was an amora of the fifth generation in the Land of Israel. He held the office of Nasi...
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    year that Rava (the great teacher of Mahuza) died, and he was the first important teacher in the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia after Rava's death. Simai...
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  • other Yitzchaks, and since that was due to the arbitrary action of a later amora, the real name of his father can no longer be determined. Regarding the...
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  • in Lower Mesopotamia near what is now the city of Najaf, Iraq. He was an amora of the third generation (died c. 320 CE at the age of ninety-two), and is...
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  • the term מיתיבי and the Amorai'm unable to “deflect the challenge”. An Amora called Rav is challenged by Tannai’tic sources “and is vindicated by the...
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  • Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin. One relates that amora Abba ben Joseph bar Ḥama ("Rava") created a person; in the second, two other Sages were...
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  • there temporarily. According to a teaching dating from the 4th century, an amora heard in Nehardea certain tannaitic teachings which had until then been...
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  • the academy of Pumbedita was relocated to Mahuza during the time of the amora Rava Nehardea Academy in Nehardea Pumbedita Academy in Pumbedita for most of...
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