Ahai of Shabḥa or Aha of Shabḥa, Hebrew: רב אחא [אחאי] משַׁבָּחָא) was a leading scholar during the period of the Geonim, an 8th-century Talmudist of...
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She'iltot (redirect from Sheiltot by Aḥa, of Shabḥa)
rabbinic halakhic work composed in the 8th century by Ahai of Shabha (variants: Aḥa of Shabha; Acha of Shabcha), during the geonic period. She'iltot is an...
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Purim (redirect from The Feast of Purim)
the Fast of Esther is Aḥai of Shabḥa (8th century CE) in She'iltot 4; the reason there given for its institution is based on an interpretation of Esther...
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Halakha (section Codes of Jewish law)
Codifications by the Geonim of the halakhic material in the Talmud. An early work, She'iltot ("Questions") by Ahai of Shabha (c. 752) discusses over 190...
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Isaac Pardo (category Bosnia and Herzegovina people of Italian descent)
Bosnian rabbi as well as the author of "To'afot Re'em", a commentary on the responsa of Rabbi Ahai of Shabha, with an index of the different responsa. He succeeded...
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of Ukban's sins and repentance Rabbi Aḥai of Shabḥa, in his "She'eltot" (sections "Wa'era" and "Ki Tissa"), tells almost the same story as Rashi, of a...
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the statements of these authorities that Simeon Kayyara's chief sources were the She'iltot of Ahai of Shabha and the Halachot Pesukot of Yehudai ben Nahman...
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of Tanhuma as being older than the other versions. Townsend cites a section from Buber's recension which appears to be a quote from Ahai of Shabha's She'iltot...
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Relative hour (category Units of time)
(Orach Chayim 58:1) Babylonian Talmud, Pesahim 12b; Ahai of Shabha (1971). Sheiltot of Rab Aḥai Gaon. Jerusalem: Makor Ltd. p. 31a (Pesach), column 122...
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Rami b. Abba (category Talmud rabbis of Babylonia)
Tahlifa) who both prohibited him from doing so. According to Sheiltot of Ahai of Shabha, Rami b. Abba was Rav Ashi's father-in-law, and probably it is this...
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