רבי ינאי Rabbi Yannai
Amora of the Land of Israel · 1st generation (c. 220–250 CE) — named 266 times across 35 tractates of the Bavli.
Rabbi Yannai, of Sepphoris, belongs to the first amoraic generation in Eretz Yisrael and was Rabbi Yochanan's teacher. He was a man of means with a school of his own, and the Talmud cites the teachings of the house of Rabbi Yannai as a body distinct from his individual rulings.
His best-known saying is one of plain honesty about the limits of understanding: it is not in our hands to explain either the tranquility of the wicked or the suffering of the righteous. He is named some two hundred and sixty-five times across thirty-five tractates and is cited by other sages some twenty times.
Of Sepphoris; Rabbi Yochanan's teacher.
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