Pum-Nahara Academy

Pum-Nahara Academy (Hebrew: ישיבת פום נהרא) was a Jewish Yeshiva academy in Babylon, during the era of the Jewish Amora sages, in the town of Pum-Nahara, Babylonia, that was within the area of jurisdiction of Sura city, and was situated on the east bank of the "Sura" river, nearby the Sura river's estuary to the Tigris river,[1] and thus it was granted its name (Pum = in Aramaic "mouth" or "lips" (i.e. "waterside"); Nahara = River; Hence, "The waterside of the River"). According to the Talmud, the Jewish community in Pum-Nahara city, were poor.[2] The dean of the Yeshiva academy, that was third in the line of improtnace (after Pumbedita and Sura academies), out of four Yeshiva academies that existed at the time in Babylonia,[3] was Rav Kahana III, who was the Rabbi teacher of Rav Ashi, and a disciple of Rabbah bar Nahmani ("Rabbah"). Rav Kahana III also resided at Pum-Nahara (and thus also known as Rav Kahana of Pum-Nahara).[4][5][6] One may note some additional Jewish Amora sages that resided and were active at the time at Pum-Nahara, and among them: R. Aha b. Rab,[1] who later became an Exilarch, as well as Rab b. Shaba.[1]

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  1. 1 2 3 Yud Shin Tzuri, "History of the Hebrew public law - the reign of the Exilarchs and the Yeshivas (The times of Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak the Rosh Kala and dean of the Yeshiva academy), Mitzpeh Publications, 1938 (Hebrew).
  2. ↑ Rashi, Babylon Talmud, tractate Yebamoth, 15b
  3. ↑ Yud Shin Tzuri, Rav Ashi, Biłgoraj, 1923 (Hebrew)
  4. ↑ "R. Hanan of Nehardea visited Rav Kahana at Pum-Nahara ", B. talmud, tractate Kiddushin, 81b
  5. ↑ "R. Nahman of Nehardea once came to R. Kahana at Pum-Nahara", B. Talmud, tractate Chullin, 95b
  6. ↑ "R. Kahana did make a lament for R. Zebid of Nehardea at Pum-Nahara", B. Talmud, tractate Mo'ed Katan, 27b
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