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Encyclopedia > Amram Gaon

Amram Gaon (d. 875) was a famous Gaon or head of the Jewish Talmud Academy of Sura (Persia) in the 9th century. He was the author of many Responsa, but his chief work was liturgical.


He was the first to arrange a complete liturgy for the synagogue, and his Prayer-Book (Siddur Rab `Amram) was the foundation of most of the extant rites in use among the Jews. The siddur was published in Warsaw in two parts (1865).




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Amram Gaon was a Jewish Babylonian sage who lived in the 9th century.
Amram ( עַמְרָם "Friend of the most high ( God "), Standard Hebrew ʿAmram, Tiberian Hebrew ʿAmrām) is a Levite, the husband of Jochebed and father of Aaron, Miriam and Moses.
According to the Talmud, Amram promulgated the laws of marriage and divorce amongst the Jews in Egypt.
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He was the first to arrange a complete liturgy for the synagogue, and his Prayer-Book ( Siddur Rab `Amram) was the foundation of most of the extant rites in use among the Jews.
Amram was a Levite, the husband of Jochebed and father of Aaron and Moses.
Amram means "friend of the most high" i.e.
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