רבה בר רב שילא Rabbah bar Rav Shila
Amora of Babylonia · 4th generation (c. 320–350 CE) — named 49 times across 20 tractates of the Bavli.
Rabbah bar Rav Shila, of the fourth Babylonian generation, is quoted in others' names some eleven times and cited some fifty times across twenty tractates, spread thinly.
He is the sage of one of the Talmud's most quoted exchanges: meeting Elijah, he asked what the Holy One was occupied with, and was told that He repeats teachings in the name of all the sages but not in the name of Rabbi Meir, who had learned from Acher — to which Rabbah bar Shila answered that Rabbi Meir found a pomegranate, ate the fruit and threw away the peel. It is the tradition's own statement of how a student may learn from a flawed teacher.
Of the fourth Babylonian generation.
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