The Sages of the Talmud

רבי ינאי ברבי ישמעאל Rabbi Yannai berabbi Yishmael

Amora of the Land of Israel · 3rd generation (c. 290–320 CE) — named 3 times across 3 tractates of the Bavli.

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Rabbi Yannai berabbi Yishmael, of the third amoraic generation in Eretz Yisrael, is named three times, one apiece in Bava Metzia, Bechorot and Gittin.

The roster marks the entry for review. His generation, his centre and those three citations are the whole of what can be said about him, and that is the whole of it.

Rarely cited.

The gematria of the name

Computed from the consonantal letters of רבי ינאי ברבי ישמעאל by the same engine that runs every search. This is the value of a NAME — no word of the Talmud is valued anywhere in this app.

Where he is namedPremium

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Talmud Bavli, Wikisource edition, via Sefaria — CC BY-SA 4.0. A mention is an occurrence of a name-form the roster lists, found by longest match — not a scholarly attribution census; the index says what that means in full.