רב הונא Rav Huna
Amora of Babylonia · 2nd generation (c. 250–290 CE) — named 1,441 times across 38 tractates of the Bavli.
Rav Huna, of the second Babylonian generation, was Rav's student and his successor at the head of Sura, which he led for some forty years. His son was Rabbah bar Rav Huna. The tradition speaks of thirteen thousand students at his lectures, and of the eight hundred who could not hear him at once.
He is remembered as much for conduct as for rulings: he would open his door before a meal and call out that anyone in need should come and eat, and when his wine turned to vinegar the sages told him to examine his deeds, which he did. He is quoted in others' names some hundred and sixty times and quoted by others some seventy, and stands beside Rav Chisda in most of the give-and-take of his generation at Sura.
Head of Sura after Rav; thirteen thousand students, it is said.
- Studied under
- רבRav (Abba Arikha)
- Father of
- רבה בר רב הונאRabbah bar Rav Huna
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