רבה Rabbah bar Nachmani
Amora of Babylonia · 3rd generation (c. 290–320 CE) — named 1,519 times across 38 tractates of the Bavli.
Rabbah bar Nachmani, of the third Babylonian generation, headed the academy at Pumbedita, where he taught Abaye — his nephew, whom he raised — and Rava. He learned from Rav Yehuda and Rav Huna. The Talmud calls him the uprooter of mountains, for a mind that ground one tradition against another, as against Rav Yosef, who was called Sinai for the breadth of what he had learned; when the academy asked which of the two should lead, the answer was that Sinai comes first.
He was famous for opening a lecture with a light word to gladden his students before beginning in earnest. He died in flight from the authorities, alone in a field, and the tradition tells that he was called at that hour to the heavenly academy. Bare רבה in the Bavli is he.
'the uprooter of mountains'; head of Pumbedita. Bare רבה is he, and the prefix מ is refused on this form so the common verb מרבה is never counted.
- Studied under
- רב יהודהRav Yehuda bar Yechezkelרב הונאRav Huna
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