Fallujah (Arabic: فلوجة; sometimes transliterated as Falluja and less commonly Fallouja, Falloujah, Faloojah, Faloojeh) is a city of about 350,000 inhabitants in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly 69km (43 miles) west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. ...
Ashi's teacher was Kahana, a member of the same college, who later became president of the academy at Pumbedita.
A particularly important element in Ashi's success was the length of his tenure of office as head of Sura Academy, which must have lasted fifty-two years, but with tradition, probably for the sake of round numbers, was exaggerated into sixty.
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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