Commentary for Berakhot 125:23
אמר רב ספרא ר' אבהו הוה משתעי כשירד חנינא בן אחי רבי יהושע לגולה היה מעבר שנים וקובע חדשים בחוצה לארץ
Rab Safra said : R. Abbahu related that when Hananyah, the nephew of R. Joshua, went to the Diaspora, he used to intercalate the years and fix the new moons outside the [Holy] Land.
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
This, and not Hannina, is the correct form of the name. Cf. D. S. ad loc.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
The Jewish Community of Babylon.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
See p. 63 n. 1. The arrangement of the Calendar was only permitted in Judea; Sanh. 11 b.
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