רב כהנא Rav Kahana
Amora of Babylonia · 2nd generation (c. 250–290 CE) — named 562 times across 36 tractates of the Bavli.
Rav Kahana was a student of Rav in the second Babylonian generation, and the Talmud tells at length how he came up to Eretz Yisrael and sat before Rabbi Yochanan, who at first took him for an ignorant man and learned otherwise.
The name is borne by more than one Babylonian sage across the generations — among them the Rav Kahana from whom Rav Ashi learned, four generations later — and the Bavli's unqualified רב כהנא does not mark which is meant. This index does not split them on guesswork, which is why his five hundred and sixty mentions are best read as a name rather than as a single life.
Several Babylonian sages bear this name across the generations; the Bavli's unqualified רב כהנא is not split between them here.
- Studied under
- רבRav (Abba Arikha)
The gematria of the name
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