רב אשי Rav Ashi
Amora of Babylonia · 6th generation (c. 375–425 CE) — named 1,683 times across 37 tractates of the Bavli.
Rav Ashi, of the sixth Babylonian generation, presided over the academy of Sura at Mata Mechasya for close to sixty years, and with Ravina he is named by the Talmud as the end of instruction — the two in whose hands the Gemara took the shape we learn it in. He learned from Rav Kahana; his son Mar bar Rav Ashi headed Sura after him.
The tradition is that across the twice-yearly kallah assemblies he went through the whole of the Talmud twice over in thirty years, ordering the disputes of the generations before him and settling what had been left open. Of him, as of Rebbi, it was said that Torah and greatness were joined in one place. He is named some seventeen hundred times, and appears constantly beside Ravina, Amemar and Rav Acha son of Rava in the give-and-take of the last amoraic generation.
Head of Sura for sixty years; with Ravina, the redactor of the Talmud.
- Studied under
- רב כהנאRav Kahana
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