How Rav Ashi made the yeshiva at Masa Mechasya (Sura) permanent; his surpassing the Reishei Galusa in significance and dominance;
and the history and legends of Bustenai.
Subsequent episodes in the series will be linked in comments here.
Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer הרב יוסף גבריאל בקהופר
I don't think Sura and Masa Mechasya are the same place. Although they were the same community and yeshiva. If I recall correctly, the Euphrates jumped it's bed and laid a new course. The city of Sura was no longer on the river and had a decline. The nearby town of Masa Mechasya which was now near the river and grew to be riverside grew into a full city. By the end of the amoraim, the Sura Jewish community was more there than in Sura itself.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that MM is a suburb of S. Or, they are two neighborhoods in the same metropolitan area. The main point is that RSG sees the two as connected and one is the continuation of the other.
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