Commentary for Berakhot 61:16
רב מרדכי אלוייה לרב שימי בר אשי מהגרוניא ועד בי כיפי ואמרי לה עד בי דורא:
Rab Mordecai accompanied Rab Ashe from Hagronya to Be-Kipe ; another version : to Be-Dura.
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
According to Hyman, iii. p. 903a (see the parallel passage in Sotah 46b), this is the correct reading, not Rab Shimi b. Asbe as in edd.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Possibly the town Agranum, situated on one of the tributaries of the Euphrates; Neubauer, p. 347. Wiesner, p. 71, identifies it with the modern Erzerum.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Perhaps identical with the locality of Koufa in Babylon ; Neubauer, loc. cit. According to Wiesner, loc. cit., it is Mt Capotes near which the Euphrates has its source.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
A Babylonian locality in the neighbourhood of the last-mentioned place. There appears to be a lacuna in the text here, relating what happened on that occasion.
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