רבי יהודה Rabbi Yehuda bar Ilai
Tanna · 3rd generation (c. 110–135 CE) — named 3,409 times across 38 tractates of the Bavli.
Rabbi Yehuda bar Ilai, of the third tannaitic generation at Usha, was a student of Rabbi Akiva and of Rabbi Tarfon, and the Talmud calls him first among the speakers in every place — he opened when the sages sat. Unqualified רבי יהודה in the Bavli is always he, and never the Babylonian amora Rav Yehuda, whom one letter separates from him.
He is one of the four or five voices the Mishnah is largely made of, disputing Rabbi Meir, Rabbi Yose and Rabbi Shimon on page after page; only Rava, Rav and Rabbi Yochanan are named more often than his three thousand-odd mentions. The tradition remembers his poverty as warmly as his learning — he and his wife owning one cloak between them — and his ruling that a father who does not teach his son a trade teaches him robbery.
First among the speakers everywhere; unqualified רבי יהודה in the Bavli is he. NOT to be confused with the Amora רב יהודה.
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- רבי עקיבאRabbi Akivaרבי טרפוןRabbi Tarfon
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