Paltoi ben Abaye, the Glossary
Rav Paltoi Yishia ben Rav Abaye Gaon HaKohen (Hebrew: רב פלטוי ישעיה בר אביי גאון הכהן: – 858) was the Gaon of Pumbedita from 841 up until his death in 858.[1]
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13 relations: Babylon, Exilarch, Gaon (Hebrew), Geonim, Halakha, Hebrew language, Mar-Zutra III, North Africa, Posek, Pumbedita Academy, Responsa, Spain, Zemah ben Paltoi.
- 800s births
- 858 deaths
- 9th-century Jews
- 9th-century rabbis
- Rabbis of Academy of Pumbedita
Babylon
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad.
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Exilarch
The exilarch was the leader of the Jewish community in Persian Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) during the era of the Parthians, Sasanians and Abbasid Caliphate up until the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, with intermittent gaps due to ongoing political developments.
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Gaon (Hebrew)
Gaon (גאון, gā'ōn,, plural geonim,, gĕ'ōnīm) may have originated as a shortened version of "Rosh Yeshivat Ge'on Ya'akov", although there are alternative explanations.
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Geonim
Geonim (גאונים;; also transliterated Gaonim, singular Gaon) were the presidents of the two great Babylonian Talmudic Academies of Sura and Pumbedita, in the Abbasid Caliphate.
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Halakha
Halakha (translit), also transliterated as halacha, halakhah, and halocho, is the collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah.
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Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
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Mar-Zutra III
Mar-Zutra III, also called Mar-Zutra bar Mar-Zutra, according to the Seder Olam Zutta, was the posthumous and only son of the 30th Exilarch of Babylon, Mar-Zutra II.
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North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
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Posek
In Jewish law, a posek (פוסק, pl. poskim) is a legal scholar who determines the application of halakha, the Jewish religious laws derived from the written and Oral Torah, in cases of Jewish law where previous authorities are inconclusive, or in those situations where no clear halakhic precedent exists.
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Pumbedita Academy
Pumbedita Academy or Pumbedita Yeshiva (ישיבת פומבדיתא; sometimes Pumbeditha, Pumpedita, Pumbedisa) was a yeshiva in present-day Iraq, called Babylon, during the era of the Amoraim and Geonim sages. Paltoi ben Abaye and Pumbedita Academy are Rabbis of Academy of Pumbedita.
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Responsa
Responsa (plural of Latin responsum, 'answer') comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
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Zemah ben Paltoi
Rav Zemah ben Paltoi, also spelt Tzemach ben Poltoi, Zemaḥ Gaon, (Hebrew: צמח גאון בר מר רב פולטוי) (died 890 CE), was the Gaon of Pumbeditha from 872 up until his death in 890. Paltoi ben Abaye and Zemah ben Paltoi are geonim.
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See also
800s births
- 800 births
- 801 births
- 802 births
- 803 births
- 804 births
- 806 births
- 807 births
- 808 births
- 809 births
- Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī
- Al-Kindi
- Aldric of Le Mans
- Boso the Elder
- Constantine (son of Leo V)
- Conwoïon
- Euthymius the Younger
- Fintan of Rheinau
- Gottschalk of Orbais
- Govindasvāmi
- He Hongjing
- Hemma
- Leuthard II of Paris
- Lupus Servatus
- Nominoe
- Otfrid of Weissenburg
- Paltoi ben Abaye
- Pietro Tradonico
- Pope Nicholas I
- Pribina
- Ralpacan
- Rorgon II of Maine
- Swithun
- Walafrid Strabo
858 deaths
- Æthelwulf, King of Wessex
- Emperor Montoku
- Kenneth MacAlpin
- Li Shangyin
- Liu Zhuan
- Paltoi ben Abaye
- Pope Benedict III
- Pope Cosmas II of Alexandria
- Theodosius of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
- Wei Mo
9th-century Jews
- Aaron I
- Abraham Prochownik
- Bakr Ben Yahia
- Benjamin (Khazar)
- Bulan (Khazar)
- Constantine the Jew
- Eldad ha-Dani
- Hanukkah ben Obadiah
- Hezekiah (Khazar)
- Hiwi al-Balkhi
- Isaac (Khazar)
- Isaac the Jew
- Manasseh I
- Manasseh II
- Mashallah ibn Athari
- Menahem (Khazar)
- Nisi ben Menasseh
- Obadiah (Khazar)
- Paltoi ben Abaye
- Serach (Khazar)
9th-century rabbis
- Abba ben Ammi
- Amram ben Sheshna
- Boaz ben Jehoshaphat
- Hai ben David
- Jehoshaphat ben Josiah
- Josiah ben Saul
- Kohen Tzedek ben Abimai
- Nahshon ben Zadok
- Natronai ben Hilai
- Paltoi ben Abaye
- Pirqoi ben Baboi
- Sar Shalom ben Boaz
- Semah ben Josiah
- Simeon Kayyara
- Zemah ben Hayyim
Rabbis of Academy of Pumbedita
- Aaron ibn Sargado
- Abaye
- Abba ben Ammi
- Aha b. Rava
- Bostanai
- Dodai ben Nahman
- Hai ben Sherira
- Hanan of Iskiya
- Hezekiah ben David
- Judah bar Ezekiel
- Mar Zutra
- Mari ben R. Dimi
- Natronai ben Nehemiah
- Nehemiah ben Kohen Tzedek
- Paltoi ben Abaye
- Pumbedita Academy
- Rabbah Jose
- Rabbah bar Nahmani
- Rabbai of Rob
- Rafram II
- Rav Kahana IV
- Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak
- Rav Shinwai
- Rav Yosef bar Hiyya
- Rav Zevid
- Rava (amora)
- Sherira ben Hanina
- Simuna