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unusual facts about amoraim


Heinrich Jacob Bashuysen

He also entertained the idea of amplifying Otho's Historia Doctorum Mishnicorum by adding the Amoraim.


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Hamnuna

According to the Encyclopaedia Judaica, "Other amoraim of the same name, some with and some without appellations, who lived in the third and fourth centuries and whom it is difficult to identify, are referred to in the Talmudic sources."

Rav Papa

He led the Talmudical academy in Nehardea (also called Naresh, or Nareš), close to Sura, during the fifth generation of Babylonian amoraim.

Shnayim mikra ve-echad targum

:Rav Huna bar Yehuda says in the name of Rabbi Ammi: "one should always complete the reading of one's weekly Torah portion with the congregation, twice from the mikra (i.e. Torah) and once from the Targum."

Tanhuma

This passage (Ḳid. 33b) says that two amoraim differed in their interpretations of the words "and they looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle" (Ex. xxxiii. 8).


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