רבי יוחנן Rabbi Yochanan bar Nappacha
Amora of the Land of Israel · 2nd generation (c. 250–290 CE) — named 3,877 times across 38 tractates of the Bavli.
Rabbi Yochanan bar Nappacha headed the academy at Tiberias and is the central figure of the second amoraic generation in Eretz Yisrael. As a boy he saw Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi; he learned from Rabbi Yannai and Rabbi Hoshaya, and his own students — Rabbi Elazar ben Pedat, Rabbi Abbahu, Rabbi Ami, Rabbi Assi, Rabbi Chiya bar Abba — carried Eretz Yisrael's learning for a generation after him. The Talmud Yerushalmi rests on his school.
His disputant was Reish Lakish, his brother-in-law and the man he had drawn back to the study house; when Reish Lakish died Rabbi Yochanan could not be consoled. He is quoted in the Bavli more than any other sage of Eretz Yisrael, some eight hundred times by name of a transmitter, and the rule that the law follows him against his colleagues makes him one of the fixed points of the halakhic tradition.
Head of the academy at Tiberias; the Yerushalmi is built on him.
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