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    Rav Ashi (Hebrew: רב אשי) ("Rabbi Ashi") (352–427) was a Babylonian Jewish rabbi, of the sixth generation of amoraim. He reestablished the Academy at Sura...
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    Abba Arikha ("Rav"), a disciple of Judah ha-Nasi. Among the well-known sages that headed the yeshiva were Rav Huna, Rav Chisda, Rav Ashi, Yehudai ben Nahman...
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  • Mar bar Rav Ashi (Hebrew: מר בר רב אשי), (d. 468) was Babylonian rabbi who lived in the 5th century (seventh generation of amoraim). He would sign his...
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    at Naresh. Rav Kahana, teacher of Rav Ashi Rav Mesharshiya, student of Rava, son-in-law of Rav Kahana; colleague of Rav Papa. Rav Hama Rav Huna berai...
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    specifically the Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli), compiled in the 5th century by Rav Ashi and Ravina II. There is also an earlier collection known as the Jerusalem...
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  • (seventh and eighth generations of amoraim). He, along with his teacher Rav Ashi, were considered "the end of Hora'ah (teaching)". Traditionally both of...
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    these academies was the compilation of the Babylonian Talmud, started by Rav Ashi and Ravina, two leaders of the Babylonian Jewish community, around the...
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    qualification. The main compilers of the Babylonian Talmud were Ravina and Rav Ashi. The Jerusalem Talmud, also known as the Palestinian Talmud, was compiled...
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  • bar Ashi (or Rav Hiyya bar Ashi; Hebrew: רב חייא בר אשי) was a second and third generation Amora sage of Babylon. In his youth he studied under Rav, and...
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  • Ashi is the Zoroastrian concept of "reward, recompense". Ashi may also refer to: Ashi, Iran, a village in Iran Ashi River in China Rav Ashi, a Jewish...
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  • Maimonides wrote that Ravina and Rav Ashi were the last generation of sages in the Talmud, and that it was Rav Ashi who composed the Babylonian Talmud...
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  • students include the leading amoraim of the sixth generation, including Rav Ashi (who became Amemar's "Fellow Student") and Huna bar Nathan, the Exilarch...
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  • colleagues Rav Ashi, Amemar, and Mar Zutra - would often go to visit the royal court. However, while Huna was the official political leader of the Jews, Rav Ashi...
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  • (1903–1993) Abba ben Joseph bar Ḥama (c. 280–352) Mar bar Rav Ashi (fl. 455, d. 467), son of Rabbi Ashi Mar Ukva Yosef Karo (1488–1575) List of rabbis...
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  • peace". R. Simai b. Ashi (father of Rav Ashi), who also attended Rav Papa's lectures, often embarrassed him by questions; so that Rav Papa once fell on...
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  • He believed the good deeds of the gentiles will be rewarded as well. Rav Ashi believed that a Jew who sells a gentile property adjacent to a Jewish property...
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    "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...
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  • activity, though this was overshadowed by that of Rav Ashi, the director of the Academy of Sura. It was Rav Ashi who had the seat of the exilarchate, which belonged...
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    Rav Aḥa, son of Rava, asked Rav Ashi whether one who saw someone sin may tell one's teacher, so that the teacher too would hate the sinner. Rav Ashi replied...
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  • filled the place of Rav Ashi as head of the Sura Academy for five years (427-432). TANNAIM AND AMORAIM, Jewish encyclopedia;Article-List Rav Yeimar | רב יימר...
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  • And all day long, they utter the Law of Moses, walking in the way that Rav Ashi instructed. [They are] those who pursue [diligently] after righteousness...
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  • When Rav Ashi became director of the Academy of Sura (or Mata Mehasya), Ravina became a student there, although he was at least as old as Ashi—perhaps...
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  • studied with Rav Ashi, who became his leading student. Ashi honored Kahana greatly, but considered Amemar to be his principal Rabbi as well. Ashi would use...
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    founded by Saint Maron in Lebanon. The Talmud of Babylon is written by Rav Ashi. This commentary on the Mishnah contains approximately 2.5 million words...
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    contemporary of Rav Ashi, the great master of Sura, who died in 427. In the Talmud, however, Huna ben Nathan is mentioned as Ashi's contemporary, and...
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  • writes that Rav Acha barei deRav Yosef was a student of Rav Ashi, a sixth-generation Amora, and would frequently ask him questions. Rav Ashi praised him...
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  • "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...
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  • rabbi, of the fifth and sixth generation of amoraim. He was the cousin of Rav Ashi and served as the Dean of the Pumbedita Academy from 395 (ד'קנ"ו, Hebrew...
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    prior to the 13th century, including the writings of Rav Huna (3rd century), Rava (4th century), Rav Ashi (5th century), and Maimonides (11th century), explicitly...
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  • be cited in opposition to it. Rami bar Hama's daughter may have married Rav Ashi. His daughter's son was Amemar. Bava Batra 12b; Sukkah 29a; compare Rabbinowitz...
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