exilarch in a sentence

1. Nehardea was also the seat of the exilarch and his bet din.

2. In addition to the heads of the academies, the Jews had a secular ruler, the exilarch.

3. Once a year, in the third week after the Feast of Tabernacles, a kind of court was held at the house of the Exilarch.

4. "The exilarchate was for sale in the Arab period" (Ibn Daud); and centuries later, Sherira boasts that he was not descended from Bostanai.

5. Although this statement is not altogether free from suspicion, it at least proves that it was believed to be within the powers of this exilarch to make a copy of the Talmud without having an original at hand.

6. Whether the office was discontinued with the last publicly known exilarch or merely disappeared from the surface of history, whether today it is entirely abandoned or exists in another form, are questions which must wait.

7. That the news of this ‘massacre’ did not reach Syria, which included Jerusalem and Adhra’at, with which the Medina Jews had contacts, and the Exilarchate in Iraq, which exercised religious authority over them is highly unlikely.