רבי זירא Rabbi Zeira
Amora of the Land of Israel · 3rd generation (c. 290–320 CE) — named 599 times across 37 tractates of the Bavli.
Rabbi Zeira was born in Babylonia and learned there from Rav Yehuda, then went up to Eretz Yisrael and joined the school of Rabbi Yochanan in Tiberias, where he belongs to the third amoraic generation. The Talmud tells that he fasted a hundred fasts in order to forget the Babylonian manner of learning, so that it would not disturb him in the study of Eretz Yisrael — a story about two ways of thinking, not about two countries.
He was small, frail and famous for his piety, and he fasted again so that the fire of Gehinnom should have no power over him. He is quoted in others' names some fifty-seven times, appears in nearly every tractate, and is Rabbi Yirmiya's teacher.
Fasted a hundred fasts to forget the Babylonian way of learning.
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