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Rav Nachman was active in Nehardea, and is known as a judge, apparently in the court of the Exilarch (the political head of the Babylonian Jewish community).

Rav Nachman is also the earliest source for why religious Jews are always supposed to cover their heads, which has lead to the modern day Kippah. According to the talmud, someone told Rav Nachman's mother that her son would become a thief. Frightened over the fate of her child, she had him cover his head at all times so that he would be possessed by the fear of Heaven, and she prayed that the evil inclination would not take control of him. Once, while in a garden, the wind blew off his head covering. While reaching after it he grabbed an apple growing on a tree in an adjacent garden and picked it off the tree. (Thus proving that without the head covering he would be a thief).

He died in 320.

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 Rav Nachman was active in [[Nehardea]], and is known as a judge, apparently in the court of the [[Exilarch]] (the political head of the Babylonian Jewish community).
-Rav Nachman is also the earliest source for why religious Jews are always supposed to cover their heads, which has lead to the modern day [[Kippah]]. According to the [[talmud]], An astrologer told Rav Nachman's mother that her son would become a thief. Frightened over the fate of her child, she had him cover his head at all times so that he would be possessed by the fear of Heaven, and she prayed that the evil inclination would not take control of him. Once, while in a garden, the wind blew off his head covering. While reaching after it he grabbed an apple growing on a tree in an adjacent garden and picked it off the tree. (Thus proving that without the head covering he would be a thief).
+Rav Nachman is also the earliest source for why religious Jews are always supposed to cover their heads, which has lead to the modern day [[Kippah]]. According to the [[talmud]], someone told Rav Nachman's mother that her son would become a thief. Frightened over the fate of her child, she had him cover his head at all times so that he would be possessed by the fear of Heaven, and she prayed that the evil inclination would not take control of him. Once, while in a garden, the wind blew off his head covering. While reaching after it he grabbed an apple growing on a tree in an adjacent garden and picked it off the tree. (Thus proving that without the head covering he would be a thief).
 He died in [[320]].