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...

text of Kol Nidrei ("Kol Nedarim"), as it appears in the Siddur of Rav Amram Gaon, is in Hebrew; this text is used with minor changes by Italian rite...

Atzeret" according to the Talmud Bavli, Megillah 31a. Nevertheless, Seder Rav Amram Gaon notes that some have the custom of reading from the beginning of Joshua...

of the prayerbook was drawn up by Rav Amram Gaon of Sura, Babylon, about 850 CE. Half a century later Rav Saadia Gaon, also of Sura, composed a siddur...

time of Saadia Gaon. The earliest mention of it as part of the Sabbath morning service is in Seder Rav Amram written by Rav Amram Gaon in the ninth century...

843–853 Natronai ben R. Hilai ben R. Mari Gaon (Natronai ben Hilai) – 853–861 Amram bar Sheshna (Amram Gaon, Amram ben R. Sheshna) (Author of the Siddur)...

customary origin. The day (but not the name) is mentioned in the siddur of Rav Amram Gaon (9th century CE); the assignment of the first chapter of Joshua as the...

Sha'are Ẓedeḳ, Teshubot ha-Ge'onim, and Ḳebuẓat ha-Ḥakamim, Tshuvot Rav Natrunai Gaon, Jerusalem 5771, edited by Y. Brody), show his thorough mastery of...

verse of the prayer is Psalm 115:18. From as early as the time of Seder Rav Amram Gaon, this was explained as instituted in order to provide a concluding "Halleluyah"...

yellow belt, with Christians to wear a blue one. 846 In Sura, Iraq, Rav Amram Gaon compiles his siddur (Jewish prayer book.) 850 al-Mutawakkil made a decree...

between the Geonim. Amram Gaon ruled according to the current Ashkenazi custom, whereas later geonim - Saadia Gaon, Sherira Gaon, and Hai Gaon - called for reciting...

revision of prayer books according to the model formed in the Seder Rav 'Amram Gaon. By the end of the first millennium rabbinical Judaism had spread and...

Tazerat, and a letter of excommunication by David the Exilarch. Seder Rav Amram Gaon. Warsaw. 1865. hdl:2027/nnc1.cu58938583.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location...

16, 2013. p. 31. Hamodia. Dec 5, 2012. p. 1; "Kenos Hespedim for HaGaon HaRav Amram Yitzchok Zaks ZT"L". Yeshiva World News. Dec 23, 2012. Retrieved Sep...

(ed), The Iggeres of Rav Sherira Gaon, Jerusalem 1988, pp. 79, 116 Nosson Dovid Rabinowich (ed), The Iggeres of Rav Sherira Gaon, Jerusalem 1988, p. 116...

of the Geonim, selections from midrashim were added; most likely Rabbi Amram Gaon (c. 850) was the originator of the present collection, as he was the redactor...

She'iltoth of Acha'i [Gaon] Halachot Gedolot Halachot Pesukot, by Rav Yehudai Gaon Emunoth ve-Deoth (Saadia Gaon) The Siddur by Amram Gaon Responsa The Rishonim...

Celebrations of Torah in the Synagogue: A Study of the Rituals of the Seder Rav Amram Gaon and Massekhet Soferim,” [Hebrew: שלבים קדומים בהתפתחותה של הוצאת התורה...

of the City') is a Haredi Jewish group. Founded in Jerusalem in 1937 by Amram Blau and Aharon Katzenelbogen, Neturei Karta was formed as an offshoot of...

An Analysis of the Authenticity of the Zohar (2005), p. 39, with "Rav E" and "Rav G" later identified by the author as Eliyahu Dessler and Gedaliah Nadel...

§ 132). b) R. Saadia Gaon (Brought down in the complete Seder of Rav Amram, page 97) c) R. Amram Gaon (ibid.) d) Netronai Gaon. RAMBAM (Maimonides) ruled...

Jacob, Gaon (820–830) Kohen Tzedek ben Abimai, Gaon (832–843) Sar Shalom ben Boaz, Gaon (843–853) Natronai ben Hilai, Gaon (853–861) Amram Gaon, Gaon (861–872)...

by Amram ben Sheshna of Sura Academy in Sawad, the Abbasid Caliphate, an area known as "Babylonia" in Jewish texts, about 850 CE (Seder Rav ʿAmram). Half...

contemporary of Rav and Samuel, who also occupied a prominent position among the scholars of Babylon' and, according to Sherira Gaon, was also exilarch...

the failures of the school, according to Yemen's last Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Amram Qorah, was that by teaching the Turkish language, their study of Hebrew...

Amram Gaon, ed. Hedegard: Lund 1951 Seder Rab Amram Gaon, ed. Kronholm: Lund 1974 Seder Rab Amram Gaon, ed. Harfenes: Bene Berak 1994 Seder Rab Amram...

"Mar Samuel", or Samuel of Nehardea, amora Rav Huna Rav Chisda Abaye, amora Rav Papa, amora Rav Ashi (Abana), rav, amora Anan ben David, founder of Qara'ism...

Qaddish Yahid ("Individual's Kaddish"). This is included in the Siddur of Amram Gaon, but is a meditation taking the place of Kaddish rather than a Kaddish...

lit. 'Rebellion') is described in the Hebrew Bible as the daughter of Amram and Jochebed, and the older sister of Moses and Aaron. She was a prophetess...

initially shared an apartment with the families of Rabbi Nissim Karelitz, Rabbi Amram Zaks, and Rabbi Dov Wintroub, with each family occupying a single room and...