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;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Belshazzar's feast (category Book of Daniel chapters)
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...
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Jewish astrology (category History of astrology)
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...
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