• Yehudai ben Nahman (or Yehudai Gaon; Hebrew: יהודאי גאון, sometimes: Yehudai b. Nahman) was the head of the yeshiva in Sura from 757 to 761, during the...
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    that headed the yeshiva were Rav Huna, Rav Chisda, Rav Ashi, Yehudai ben Nahman, Natronai ben Hilai, Saadia Gaon, and others. Abba Arikha arrived at Sura...
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    mentions of this mnemonic include the geonic work Halakhot Pesuqot: Yehudai ben Nahman (attributed). "18". Halakhot Pesuqot (in Hebrew). Mekitze Nirdamim...
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  • whereas Moses ben Jacob of Coucy wrote that it was in fact composed by Yehudai ben Nahman. Based on anachronistic discrepancies, Moses ben Jacob's opinion...
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  • The first legal codex proper, Halachot Pesukot ("Decided Laws"), by Yehudai ben Nahman (c. 760), rearranges the Talmud passages in a structure manageable...
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  • (OCLC 71513156). Yehudai Gaon (1951). Sassoon, S.D. (ed.). Sefer Halachot Pesukot (in Hebrew). Jerusalem: Mekitze Nirdamim. OCLC 1140886734. Yehudai ben Nahman (2016)...
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  • Rav(a)Abba/Rabah, who had in turn sat at the feet of Yehudai ben Nahman, with some sources saying ben Baboy studied under both. He is associated with both...
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    Vol. 2; Vol. 3; Vol. 4. “Halakhot Ketzuvot” - attributed to Rabbi Yehudai ben Nahman (Yehuda Gaon) “Midrash Rabba on Leviticus” - one of the earliest Midrashic...
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    ibn Ezra Nachmanides (Moshe ben Nahman) Samuel ben Meir, the Rashbam, 12th century France Gersonides, also known as Levi ben Gershom or Ralbag) David Kimhi...
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  • Avot of Rabbi Natan. The contemporary synopses of Babylonian rabbis Yehudai ben Nahman (author of Halakhot Pesukot) and Simeon Kayyara (author of Halakhot...
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