The Sages of the Talmud

רב אחא בריה דרב איקא Rav Acha son of Rav Ika

Amora of Babylonia · 5th generation (c. 350–375 CE) — named 65 times across 22 tractates of the Bavli.

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Rav Acha son of Rav Ika, of the fifth Babylonian generation, appears through the later strata of the Bavli in the company of Rav Ashi, Rav Papa and Rav Acha bar Yaakov.

He is cited some sixty-five times across twenty-two tractates, heaviest in Sanhedrin and Bava Kamma. His characteristic contribution is a resolving one — supplying the reason a ruling should be understood to apply only in a particular case, which the Gemara then tests. Beyond his generation and his circle, little more is firmly established about him.

Of the fifth generation.

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