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| | Ashi - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | According to a tradition preserved in the academies, Rav Ashi was born in the same year that Raba, the great teacher of Mahuza, died, and he was the first teacher of any importance in the Babylonian colleges after Raba's death. |
 | | The work begun by Rav Ashi was continued in the two succeeding generations and completed by Rabina, another president of the college in Sura, who died in 499. |
 | | 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, twenty-eight 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. |
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