רבי חייא Rabbi Chiya the Great
Tanna · 5th generation (c. 170–200 CE) — named 499 times across 37 tractates of the Bavli.
Rabbi Chiya the Great came from Kafri in Babylonia to Eretz Yisrael, where he was Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi's student and closest colleague; he was also Rav's uncle and his teacher. He belongs to the last tannaitic generation, and his sons Yehuda and Chizkiya are named after him.
With Rabbi Oshaya he gathered and edited the tannaitic teachings left outside the Mishnah, and the Talmud's rule is that a baraita not taught in the school of Rabbi Chiya and Rabbi Oshaya is not to be relied on — which is why his name settles arguments about what the tannaim actually said. The Talmud tells how he saw to it that Torah should not be forgotten from Israel: he sowed flax, made nets, trapped deer, wrote the five books on their hides and taught five children, one book each.
Of Kafri in Babylonia; redactor of baraitot, uncle and teacher of Rav.
- Studied under
- רביRabbi Yehuda HaNasi (Rebbi)
- Taught
- רבRav (Abba Arikha)
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