רב Rav (Abba Arikha)
Amora of Babylonia · 1st generation (c. 220–250 CE) — named 4,011 times across 37 tractates of the Bavli.
Rav — Abba Arikha, Abba the Tall — belongs to the first Babylonian generation and is the man who begins the amoraic age. He studied in Eretz Yisrael under Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi and his uncle Rabbi Chiya, and on returning to Babylonia founded the academy at Sura, which lasted some eight hundred years. Rav Yehuda, Rav Huna, Rav Kahana, Rav Hamnuna and Rav Adda bar Ahava were his students.
Because he had sat before Rebbi, the tradition allows him the standing of a tanna, so that he may dispute a teaching of the Mishnah where a later amora may not. His running disagreement with Shmuel of Nehardea fills the Talmud, and the settled rule is that the law follows Rav in matters of ritual prohibition and Shmuel in civil law. He is quoted in another sage's name over a thousand times in this corpus — no one is transmitted more.
Founded the academy at Sura; a tanna where he disputes. Bare רב is matched only where no longer roster form applies, and never after בי / דבי, which is the study-house and not the man.
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