Aaron was an
amora, who receives two brief mentions in the
Babylonian Talmud
The Talmud (; ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the centerpiece of Jewi ...
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Menahot
Tractate Menachot (; "Meal Offerings") is the second tractate of the Order of Kodashim. It has Gemara in the Babylonian Talmud and a Tosefta.
Menachot deals with the rules regarding the preparation and presentation of grain-meal, oil, and drink ...
74b In both places he is represented as furnishing
Ravina, head of the rabbinical academy at
Sura
A ''surah'' (; ; ) is an Arabic word meaning 'chapter' in the Quran. There are 114 ''suwar'' in the Quran, each divided into verses (). The ''suwar'' are of unequal length; the shortest ''surah'' ( al-Kawthar) has only three verses, while the ...
from 488 to 499, and one of the editors of the Talmud, with information concerning the
Baraitot
''Baraita'' ( "external" or "outside"; pl. ''bārayāṯā'' or in Hebrew ''baraitot''; also baraitha, beraita; Ashkenazi pronunciation: berayse) designates a tradition in the Oral Torah of Rabbinical Judaism that is not incorporated in the Mi ...
(tannaitic traditions not embodied in the Mishnah) of which the latter was ignorant.
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Talmud people
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