• Shemaiah (Hebrew: שְׁמַעְיָה, Šəmaʿyā; Koinē Greek: Σαμαίᾱς, Samaíās), or Shmaya (in Modern Hebrew) was a rabbinic sage in the early pre-Mishnaic era who...
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  • Empire. His father, Yitzhak Shemaya Elyashar, was the grandson of rabbi Yaakov Shaul Elyashar through his father and rabbi Raphael Meir Panigel through...
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    London, and of the bankers Abraham Salomon Camondo of Constantinople and Shemaya Angel of Damascus. From that time to the end of the 19th century, several...
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    of Israel (Ezra 5:1) Elah Yerushelem, God of Jerusalem (Ezra 7:19) Elah Shemaya, God of Heaven (Ezra 7:23) Elah-avahati, God of my fathers, (Daniel 2:23)...
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    Moses Montefiore, as well as the bankers Abraham Camondo (Istanbul) and Shemaya Angel (Damascus) intervened, and their execution was prevented. By 1900...
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  • Abtalion (category 1st-century BCE rabbis)
    Abtalion, along with a Sameas (Koinē Greek: Σαμαίας) who may be identical to Shemaya. Linguistically, the original form of Pollion is presumably Ptollion, which...
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    chair were gathered Simḥah b. Samuel, R. Shamuel b. Meïr (Rashbam), and Shemaya, his grandsons; likewise Shemaria, Judah b. Nathan, and Isaac Levi b. Asher...
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  • Nehemiah Hayyun (category Rabbis from Sarajevo)
    Ketobet Ḳa'ḳa; Tzvi Ashkenazi, Moses Ḥagiz, and Leon Brieli, in Pitḳa Min Shemaya; Moses Ḥagiz, in Iggeret Shebuḳin, Amsterdam, 1714. At last, however, Ḥayyun...
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    Jeremiah bar Shemaya combined all these views, teaching that "Judah came near to him" ready for battle, conciliation, or prayer. Bar Shemaya taught that...
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  • London, and of the bankers Abraham Salomon Camondo of Constantinople and Shemaya Angel of Damascus. From that time to the end of the nineteenth century...
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