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Abba (Arikha) bar Aybo (traditional attribution)
Abba Arikha (175–247) (Talmudic Aramaic: אבא אריכא; born: Abba bar Aybo, Hebrew: רב אבא בר איבו) was a sage who was born and lived in Kafri, Sassanid Babylonia, known as an amora (commentator on the Oral Law) of the 3rd century who established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic traditions, which, using the Mishnah as text, led to the compilation of the Talmud. With him began the long period of ascendancy of the great academies of Babylonia, around the year 220. He is commonly known simply as Rav (or Raḅ, Hebrew: רב).
על כן נקוה al ken n'qaveh | עלינו Aleinu | Amoraic prayers | censored prayers under Christendom | Closing Prayers | devotional interpretation | English Translation | חתימות ḥatimot (concluding prayers) | interpretive translation | Jewish identity | Late Antiquity | מלכויות malkhuyot | North America | particularism and universalism | redemptive translation | revisionist translation | Rosh Hashanah | standing posture | testament to divine reality | tolerance of difference | עדות witnessing | 3rd century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 40th century A.M. | 58th century A.M.
עָלֵינוּ לְשַׁבֵּחַ | Aleinu, interpretive translation by Joshua Gutoff
Contributed on: 21 Oct 2013 by Joshua Gutoff | Abba (Arikha) bar Aybo (traditional attribution) | ❧
A “redemptive translation” of Aleinu emphasizing universalist Jewish values. . . .
