רב עיליש Rav Eylish
Amora of Babylonia · 4th generation (c. 320–350 CE) — named 8 times across 4 tractates of the Bavli.
Rav Eylish, of the fourth Babylonian generation, was a student and companion of Rava, and the Talmud's most memorable account of him is the one in which the two are held captive together and he makes his escape on the counsel of a bird — refusing the raven's word, and acting on the dove's.
He is named eight times, half of them in Bava Metzia and the rest in Gittin, Bava Batra and Pesachim: the civil law, which is where the Bavli mostly has occasion to cite him.
Rava's companion in captivity.
- Studied under
- רבאRava (bar Yosef bar Chama)
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