רב חסדא Rav Chisda
Amora of Babylonia · 3rd generation (c. 290–320 CE) — named 1,363 times across 38 tractates of the Bavli.
Rav Chisda, of the third Babylonian generation, was a kohen, a student of Rav and afterwards the colleague and student of Rav Huna, whom he followed at the head of Sura. Rava married his daughter and learned from him, and Rami bar Chama was his student and son-in-law as well.
He is the sharp questioner of his generation — the Talmud speaks of the keen-edged reasoning of Sura in his day — and he is quoted in others' names some ninety times and cited by others some sixty. He appears most in Shabbat, Chullin and Berachot, and his sayings on the dignity of the body, on early rising and on a father's obligation to his children are among the ones repeated outside the study house as well as in it.
Head of Sura; the sharp-witted one.
- Studied under
- רבRav (Abba Arikha)רב הונאRav Huna
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