רבה בר בר חנה Rabbah bar bar Chana
Amora of Babylonia · 3rd generation (c. 290–320 CE) — named 414 times across 33 tractates of the Bavli.
Rabbah bar bar Chana, of the third Babylonian generation, was of Rabbi Chiya's family and studied in Eretz Yisrael under Rabbi Yochanan before returning to Babylonia. He is one of the chief channels through which Rabbi Yochanan's teaching reached the Babylonian academies: he is quoted as a transmitter some two hundred and fifty times in this corpus, nearly always in Rabbi Yochanan's name.
He is also the teller of the great traveller's tales of Bava Batra — the fish that was mistaken for an island, the geese of the wilderness, the place where heaven and earth touch — passages the tradition has always read as parables rather than reports, and which generations of commentators have worked to unlock.
The traveller of the tall tales; carried Rabbi Yochanan's teaching to Babylonia.
- Studied under
- רבי יוחנןRabbi Yochanan bar Nappacha
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