Kallah (semiannual assembly)

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Torah study gathering rabbinic institution scholarly assembly

Kallah was a semiannual scholarly assembly in the Babylonian Jewish academies where students and rabbis gathered for intensive study and legal discussion.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Kallah	1
Kallah (semiannual assembly) canonical	1

Statements (35)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Torah study gathering ⓘ rabbinic institution ⓘ scholarly assembly ⓘ
associatedWith	Babylonian Talmudic academies ⓘ surface form: Babylonian Jewish academies
attendancePattern	students traveled from various Jewish communities ⓘ
frequency	semiannual ⓘ
function	centralization of Jewish legal authority ⓘ formulation of halakhic rulings ⓘ public questioning of students ⓘ review of assigned Talmudic tractates ⓘ
governanceRole	forum for communal and legal decisions ⓘ
heldAt	Pumbedita academy ⓘ Sura academy ⓘ
historicalSources	Geonic responsa ⓘ later rabbinic literature ⓘ
impact	dissemination of Babylonian halakhah ⓘ strengthening ties between diaspora communities and Babylonian academies ⓘ
languageOfStudy	Aramaic ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ
location	Babylon ⓘ surface form: Babylonia
mainTextStudied	Talmud Bavli ⓘ surface form: Babylonian Talmud Bible ⓘ
organizedBy	gaon ⓘ heads of Babylonian academies ⓘ
participants	Acharya ⓘ surface form: gaon (head of academy) rabbis ⓘ students ⓘ
purpose	Talmudic analysis ⓘ halakhic (legal) discussion ⓘ intensive Torah study ⓘ
relatedTo	Geonim ⓘ yeshiva system in Babylonia ⓘ
religiousTradition	Judaism ⓘ
timePeriod	Geonic era ⓘ early medieval period ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sura → hasAcademicTerm → Kallah (semiannual assembly) ⓘ

Sabbath queen → alsoKnownAs → Kallah (semiannual assembly) ⓘ

subject surface form: Sabbath Queen

this entity surface form: Kallah