Background
Foreign the Savora sage, son of the 30th Exilarch, see: March-Zutra III.
Foreign the Savora sage, son of the 30th Exilarch, see: March-Zutra III.
March Zutra (Hebrew: מר זוטרא) was a Jewish Amora sage of Babylon, of the sixth generation of the Amora era. He headed the Yeshiva of Pumbedita, and according to the book "Seder Tannaim ve-Amoraim", previous to Rav Aha b. Rava. In the Iggeret Rav Sherira Gaon (French version), he is not mentioned as a head of a Yeshiva, but in later sources he is noted as Mr Zutra, Head of a Yeshiva.