Pumbedita Academy

Coordinates: 33°21′04″N 43°47′10″E / 33.35111°N 43.78611°E / 33.35111; 43.78611
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Pumbedita
Pumbedita is located in Iraq
Pumbedita
Pumbedita
Coordinates: 33°21′04″N 43°47′10″E / 33.35111°N 43.78611°E / 33.35111; 43.78611
Country Iraq

Pumbedita Academy or Pumbedita Yeshiva (

Abba Arika
, was an influential and dominant yeshiva for about 800 years.

History

After Abba Arikha and

Hai Gaon
.

At the time, the academies of Pumbedita and

Hai Gaon. Pumbedita Academy was at its peak during the third and fourth generation of the Amoraim. During the days of the Amora sage Rava, Pumbedita Academy moved to Mahuza (מחוזא, modern al-Mada'in
), but after his death, it returned to Pumbedita.

After with the sealing of the Talmud by Ravina II Sura, the era of the Savoraim began (499-589), in which most part of that period, proper studying on regular basis no longer took place in Sura, only in Pumbedita.

During the era of the Geonim, the two Talmudic academies were correspondingly active as well. One of Pumbedita's Gaons and dean of the Academy, Hai Gaon (approximately in years 988-990), moved the academy to Baghdad because the number of Jews making a living from agriculture was growing smaller and they were migrating to the big cities, mainly to Baghdad (apart from the phenomenon of Jewish emigration out of Babylonia). However, the academy's name remained "Pumbedita Academy" despite its relocation.

The last period of Pumbedita Academy growth took place during the days of

halachic issues attached were received at Pumbedita, addressed to the heads of the Academy from all around the Jewish diaspora
. The Geonim of the Academy worked hard to respond to their questions. Along with Hai Gaon's death (c. 1038), the era of the Geonim ended.

Hezekiah Gaon and Bostanai were appointed deans of Pumbedita Academy, the only men to be simultaneously a Gaon and Exilarch. Twenty years later, Hezekiah Gaon, by some accounts, was tortured to death by the Muslim Buyid dynasty and Pumbedita Academy closed.[1]

List of Pumbedita academy's deans

Amora era

Savora era

Geonim era

Source:[4][2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b The list dates are in accordance with the work of Prof. Moshe Gil, "Kingdom of Israel in the Gaonic era", 1997 (in Hebrew). Some of the information concerning the dates are based on factual sources, however, some are based on premises, in the absence of authoritative sources or due to contradiction between sources. There is a dispute among the scholars concerning some of the dates, and not all is agreed upon.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Jews in Islamic countries in the Middle Ages", Moshe Gil, p. 404 – A Chronological List of the Geonim of Sura and Pumbedita books.google.com

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