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Aha bar Jacob
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “jewish amora sage of babylon”. Today it says “babylonian rabbi of the third and fourth generations of amoraim”.
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Aha Bar Ya'akov ) Was a Jewish Amora sage of Babylon , of the third and fourth generation of the Amora era.1 He was one of the disciples of Rav Huna . He was also one of the prominent Jewish leaders of Papunia . In the Talmud it is storied that he was a man of great piety and a great scholar .2
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jewish amora sage of babylon
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babylonian rabbi of the third and fourth generations of amoraim
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