Kahana (II)
220 CE–295 CE · Amoraim · Pum Nahara
Rav Kahana II was a Babylonian scholar of the mid-third century CE. A student of the great Rav, he was a second-generation Amora—one of many voices whose give-and-take fills the Babylonian Talmud, the sprawling record of how these sages argued the law into shape. His name appears frequently throughout the Bavli, especially in matters of ritual law and talmudic reasoning, where his disputes with other sages helped shape later Jewish law.
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Pum NaharaTalmudic-era settlement
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About Pum Nahara
Pum Nahara was a settlement in Talmudic-era Babylonia (central Iraq) that hosted a rabbinic academy in the amoraic period. It is associated in the Talmud with sages including Rav Kahana. Its precise location is not securely identified.
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