Amram bar Sheshna or Amram Gaon (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: עמרם בר ששנא or Hebrew: עמרם גאון; died 875) was a gaon or head of the Academy of Sura in Lower...

is mentioned for the first time by Amram ben Sheshna of Sura Academy in Babylonia in 670 and later by Natronai ben Hilai, also of Sura Academy, in 853...

weekdays, Sabbaths, and festivals (apart from the prayer book of Amram ben Sheshna, of which there is no authoritative text). The text also contains...

by Amram ben Sheshna of Sura Academy in Sawad, the Abbasid Caliphate, an area known as "Babylonia" in Jewish texts, about 850 CE (Seder Rav ʿAmram). Half...

manuscript contains this reference. Moses ben Jacob of Coucy, Amram ben Sheshna, Natronai ben Hilai, and Saadia Gaon attest to its popular use by the 9th...

Amram ben Sheshna. He wrote explanations to difficult words in the Talmud, not in alphabetical order, as did his contemporary Gaon Ẓemaḥ ben Paltoi of...

Hilai) – 853–861 Amram bar Sheshna (Amram Gaon, Amram ben R. Sheshna) (Author of the Siddur) – 861–872 Nahshon ben R. Zadok – 872–879 Zemah ben R. Hayyim –...

letters of the Geonim, may be illustrated by the following example: "Amram ben Sheshna, head of the academy of the city of Meḥasya [Sura], to all scholars...

L'yachid ("Kaddish for an individual"), attributed to ninth-century Gaon Amram bar Sheshna, and the use of kavanah prayer, asking heavenly beings to join with...