Rav Kahana, a name alluding to several Babylonian amoraim, may refer to:
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Amoraim refers to Jewish scholars of the period from about 200 to 500 CE, who "said" or "told over" the teachings of the Oral Torah. They were primarily located in Babylonia and the Land of Israel. Their legal discussions and debates were eventually codified in the Gemara. The Amoraim followed the Tannaim in the sequence of ancient Jewish scholars. The Tannaim were direct transmitters of uncodified oral tradition; the Amoraim expounded upon and clarified the oral law after its initial codification.
The Three Weeks or Bein ha-Metzarim is a period of mourning commemorating the destruction of the first and second Jewish Temples. The Three Weeks start on the seventeenth day of the Jewish month of Tammuz — the fast of Shiva Asar B'Tammuz — and end on the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av — the fast of Tisha B'Av, which occurs exactly three weeks later. Both of these fasts commemorate events surrounding the destruction of the Jewish Temples and the subsequent exile of the Jews from the land of Israel. According to conventional chronology, the destruction of the first Temple, by Nebuchadnezzar II, occurred in 586 BCE, and the second, by the Romans, in 70 CE. Jewish chronology, however, traditionally places the first destruction at about 421 BCE.
Kahana may refer to:
Pesikta de-Rab Kahana is a collection of aggadic midrash which exists in two editions, those of Solomon Buber and Bernard Mandelbaum (1962). It is cited in the Arukh and by Rashi.
Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah is an aggadic midrash on Song of Songs, quoted by Rashi under the title "Midrash Shir ha-Shirim". It is also called Aggadat Hazita, from its initial word "Hazita", or Midrash Hazita.
Pesikta refers to a number of collections of rabbinic literature:
Rav Assi, or Assi (I), was a rabbi of Babylonia, of the first generation of the amoraim.
For other Amoraic sages of Babylonia with the name "Rav Kahana", see Rav Kahana (disambiguation).
For other Amoraic sages of Babylonia with the name "Rav Kahana", see Rav Kahana (disambiguation).
Rav Aha b. Rava was a Babylonian rabbi.
Pumbedita Academy was a yeshiva in Babylon during the era of the Amoraim and Geonim sages. It was founded by Judah bar Ezekiel and, with the Sura Academy founded in 225 by Abba Arika, was an influential and dominant yeshiva for about 800 years.
Sura Academy was a Jewish yeshiva located in Sura, Babylonia. With Pumbedita Academy, it was one of the two major Jewish academies from the year 225 CE at the beginning of the era of the Amora sages until 1033 CE at the end of the era of the Gaonim. Sura Yeshiva Academy was founded by the Amora Abba Arika ("Rav"), a disciple of Judah ha-Nasi. Among the well-known sages that headed the yeshiva were Rav Huna, Rav Chisda, Rav Ashi, Yehudai Gaon, Natronai Gaon, Saadia Gaon, and others.
Pum-Nahara Academy 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, and thus it was granted its name. According to the Talmud, the Jewish community in Pum-Nahara city, were poor. The dean of the Yeshiva academy, that was third in the line of improtnace, out of four Yeshiva academies that existed at the time in Babylonia, 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. 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, who later became an Exilarch, as well as Rab b. Shaba.
For other Amoraic sages of Babylonia with the name "Rav Kahana", see Rav Kahana (disambiguation).
Rav Safra was a Babylonian rabbi, of the fourth generation of amoraim.
Rav Mesharshiya was a Babylonian rabbi, of the fifth generation of amoraim.
Nehardea Academy was one of the major rabbinical academies in Babylon, active intermittently from the early Amoraim period and until the end of the Geonim period. It was established by the Amora Samuel of Nehardea, one of the great sages of Babylon.
Yaakov Eliezer Kahana Shapira is the rosh yeshiva of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in Jerusalem and a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council.
Rabbi Abba bar Kahana was an amora of the 3th generation.
Rav Paltoi Yishia ben Rav Abaye Gaon HaKohen was the Gaon of Pumbedita from 841 up until his death in 858. His time as Gaon would be defined by an idealistic and innovative tenure, which heralded a new era of prominence for the Gaonate of Pumbedita.