Rav Nissim Gaon postulates in his Hakdamah Le ' mafteach Hatalmud that information on the holiday was so commonplace that the Mishna felt no need to explain it.

Hai's students included Rabbeinu Chananel and Rav Nissim, the head of the academy at Kairouan.

Nissim ben Jacob ( Hebrew: ניסים בן יעקב, also known as Rav Nissim Gaon or in Hebrew: רבנו נסים, lit.

Rav Nissim studied at the Kairouan yeshiva, initially under his father-Jacob ben Nissim (" Rav Yaakov Gaon ") who had studied under Hai Gaon-and then under Chushiel, whom he succeeded as head of the Yeshiva.

As the former was in Bavel ( Babylonia ) and the latter was in Sferad (" Spain "), Rav Nissim is also credited with having maintained through his letters the lines of Rabbinic discourse between these easternmost and westernmost Jewish communities.

In it Rav Nissim identifies the sources for Mishnaic quotes, identifying obscure allusions to other places in Talmudic literature.

Sura maintained the prominence conferred on it by Rav Ashi for several centuries, and only during the last two centuries of the Gaonic period did Pumbedita again become its rival.

As Rav of the city of Bratislava, he maintained a strong Orthodox Jewish perspective through communal life, first-class education, and uncompromising opposition to Reform and radical change.

* Rav Kahana II, Jewish Amora sage, active in Babylon and in the Land of Israel

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein once said that the decisions of the Aruch HaShulchan — who was a full-time Rav — take precedence over many poskim who were not active rabbanim.

As a renowned teacher of the Law and with hosts of disciples, who came from all sections of the Jewish world, Rav lived and worked in Sura until his death.

" Rav also exercised a great influence for good upon the moral and religious conditions of his native land, not only indirectly through his disciples, but directly by reason of the strictness with which he repressed abuses in matters of marriage and divorce, and denounced ignorance and negligence in matters of ritual observance.

Rav also devoted much attention to mystical and transcendental speculations which the rabbis connect with the Biblical account of creation ( Genesis 1, Ma ' aseh Bereshit ), the vision of the mysterious chariot of God ( Ezekiel 1, Ma ' aseh Merkabah ), and the Divine Name.

On one occasion he ordered some Samaritan wine, but subsequently learning that there were no longer any strict observers of the dietary laws among the Samaritans, with the assistance of his colleagues, Ḥiyya b. Abba, Rav Ammi, and Rav Assi, he investigated the report, and, ascertaining it to be well founded, did not hesitate to declare the Samaritans, for all ritualistic purposes, Gentiles ( Yer.

The latter compiled and edited the Mishnah ; Rav Ashi made it the labor of his life to collect after critical scrutiny, under the name of Gemara, those explanations of the Mishnah that had been handed down in the Babylonian academies since the days of Rab, together with all the discussions connected with them, and all the halakhic and haggadic material treated in the schools.

Rav Ashi's son Tabyomi, always spoken of as " Mar ( Master ), the son of Rab Ashi ," was a recognized scholar, but it was not until 455, 28 years after his father's death, that he was invested with the position that his father had so successfully filled for more than half a century.

When Rav Kook died in 1935, Risikoff — with " a presentiment of the catastrophe " yet to come -- published a eulogy in which he put forth his belief that Kook might have been taken early to spare him from even worse times to come.

That said, Rav Kook's willingness to engage in joint-projects ( for instance, his participation in the Chief Rabbinate ) with the secular Zionist leadership must be seen as differentiating him from many of his traditionalist peers.

Also, one could see from the published letters, that the " Chareidi " leadership was firm in its support of Rav Kook, and in fact had an apparent fond relationship with him.

Rav Chatzkel Abramsky: " The honored man, beloved of Hashem and his nation, the rabbi, the gaon, great and well-known, with breadth of knowledge, the glory of the generation, etc., etc., our master Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook, shlita, Chief Rabbi of the Land of Israel and the head of the Beis Din in the holy city of Jerusalem "

Also there is now a musical project that presents Rav Kook's poetry with musical accompaniment.

Many Reform congregations will often conclude with either Sim Shalom or Shalom Rav.

Rav Arusi and the organization Makhon Mishnath haRambam have published several books filled with commentary on various parts and aspects of the Mishneh Torah as well as topics related to the Yemenite Jewish community.

In 1990, Rav Yosef pulled Shas out of the coalition with the Likud and attempted to form a partnership with Peres's left-centre Labour Party.

However the Malbim, along with a minority of commentators, believe that Rav and Shmuel were not arguing on its compilation, but rather on its interpretation, and hence was completed before then.

As opposed this, in 1971 Rav ‘ Ovadia Yosef, who was then the Rishon LeṢiyyon / Chief Rabbi of the Sefaradim and ‘ Edot HaMizraḥ of Israel proclaimed that Karaites are Jews " LeKhol Davar " ( literally, for all purposes ) and that it is permissible for Rabbanite Jews to marry with them.

The novel idea of Jews in all parts of the world studying the same daf each day, with the goal of completing the entire Talmud, was put forth at the First World Congress of the World Agudath Israel in Vienna on 16 August 1923 by Rabbi Meir Shapiro, then Rav of Sanok, Poland, and future rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin.

The later Sephardic rite has been revised to bring it into closer conformity with the rulings of the halachic codes, which themselves often reflect the opinions of the Geonim, and is therefore of a more purely Babylonian character: thus, paradoxically, it has moved away from the current wording of the Seder Rav Amram and towards what was presumably its original wording.

On January 4, 2006, Rabbi Yaaqov Medan and Rabbi Baruch Gigi were officially invested as co-roshei yeshiva alongside Rav Amital and Rav Lichtenstein, with an eye toward Rabbi Amital's intention to retire.

On October 28, 2008, Rav Lichtenstein's eldest son, Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, was officially invested as co-Rosh Yeshiva, simultaneous with Rav Amital's official retirement, this time with an eye toward Rav Aharon Lichtenstein's eventual plan to retire.

In a sense, Alfasi brought the geonic period to a close — the last of the Babylonian geonim, Rav Hai Gaon, died when Alfasi was 25 years old ; Alfasi himself was called Gaon by several early halachic authorities.

The Talmud records a tradition that unattributed statements of the law represent the views of Rabbi Meir ( Sanhedrin 86a ), which supports the theory ( recorded by Rav Sherira Gaon in his famous Iggeret ) that he was the author of an earlier collection.

The earliest existing codification of the prayerbook was drawn up by Rav Amram Gaon of Sura, Babylon, about 850 CE.

Half a century later Rav Saadia Gaon, also of Sura, composed a siddur, in which the rubrical matter is in Arabic.

; 846: In Sura, Iraq, Rav Amram Gaon compiles his siddur ( Jewish prayer book.

Hillel was born in Babylon and, according to the Iggeret of Rav Sherira Gaon ( a comprehensive history of the composition of the Talmud from the 10th century CE ), Hillel descended from the Tribe of Benjamin on his father's side, and from the family of David on his mother's side.

In the 1830s, Rav Yisroel of Shklov, one of the leading disciples of the Vilna Gaon who had settled in Jerusalem, made another attempt to restart semikhah.

* Seder Rav Amram Gaon, ed.

* Seder Rav Amram Gaon, ed.

* Seder Rav Amram Gaon, ed.

* Seder Rav Amram Gaon, ed.

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Note, however, that according to Rav Sherira Gaon, in his iggeret, Hillel the Elder, great-great-great-grandfather of Rabbi Judah haNasi, was descended from David only on his mother's side and was actually of the tribe of Benjamin.

Rav Sherira Gaon ( Hebrew: רב שרירא גאון or R. Sherira ben Ḥanina Gaon, Hebrew: רב שרירא גאון בר חנינא or merely Sherira b. Ḥanina ) was the head ( gaon ) of the Academy of Pumbeditha.

He wrote the Iggeret Rav Sherira Gaon (" Epistle of Rav Sherira Gaon "), a comprehensive history of the composition of the Talmud.

* Iggeret Rav Sherira Gaon, Da ' at Encyclopedia

* Chabad. org Rav Sherira Gaon

According to Rav Sherira Gaon, Sura ( Hebrew: סורא ) was identical to the town of Mata Mehasia ( מתא מחסיא ), which is also mentioned in the Talmud, however, Matha-Mehasia is cited in the Talmud, many times, either as a nearby town or a suburb of Sura, and the Talmudist academy in Matha-Mehasia was sometimes moved or served as an additional branch to the Talmudist academy of Sura.