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| | Rav Ashi - The Talmudic Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | In his youth, Rav Ashi had the good fortune to study under the distinguished Amora, Rava, and when the latter died in approximately the year 4112 (351 C.E.) Rav Ashi, aged about fifteen, and many other of his fellow-students, younger and older, all went to study at Rabbi Nachman Bar Yitzchak's academy in Pumbeditha. |
 | | For Rav Ashi was considered the greatest scholar of the age, and, it was said that, since Rabbenu HaKadosh-the Compiler of the Mishna - there was none to equal Rav Ashi in greatness and Torah scholarship. |
 | | Rav Ashi had a famous son by the name of Mar bar Rav Ashi, who learned much of his Torah wisdom from his illustrious father, and when his father died, he took over the Headship of his Yeshiva. |
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