Samuel of Nehardea or Samuel bar Abba, often simply called Samuel (Hebrew: שמואל) and occasionally Mar Samuel, was a Jewish Amora of the first generation;...

of the most prominent Talmudic academies in Babylonia, and was home to great scholars such as Samuel of Nehardea, Rav Nachman, and Amemar. Nehardea was...

to: Samuel (Bible), the Hebrew Bible prophet Books of Samuel, the book of the Tanach Shmuel Hakatan, the Tanna (Mishnaic sage) Samuel of Nehardea, the...

the amora Samuel of Nehardea, one of the great sages of Babylon. Samuel founded the academy at Nehardea, which in time attracted thousands of students...

the East Samuel of Nehardea (c. 165–257),Talmudist Samuel Aba (r.  1041–1044), third King of Hungary Samuel Adams (1722–1803), Founding Father of the United...

century), headed the school of Lod. Bar Kappara Rav Huna (d. 297), disciple of Abba Arikha and Samuel of Nehardea. Dean of the Yeshiva at Sura. Judah ben...

established by Samuel of Nehardea. Samuel fixed them to the Julian calendar, which slowly slips out of alignment with the Gregorian over a span of several centuries...

divine giver. One who refuses to partake of the material world was even described as a sinner by Samuel of Nehardea in tractate Taanit (Taanit 11a). At the...

Belshazzar's feast, or the story of the writing on the wall, chapter 5 in the Book of Daniel, tells how Belshazzar holds a great feast and drinks from...

vaunted their knowledge of applied astrology. Said Samuel of Nehardea, "I know the pathways of heaven as I do the pathways of Nehardea, excepting the comet...