רב פפא Rav Papa
Amora of Babylonia · 5th generation (c. 350–375 CE) — named 1,601 times across 37 tractates of the Bavli.
Rav Papa, of the fifth Babylonian generation, learned from both Rava and Abaye and founded his own academy at Naresh. He supported himself as a brewer and grew wealthy at it, and the Talmud speaks of his household without embarrassment — a rosh yeshiva who was also a man of business.
His voice is the one that most often tidies a sugya: Rav Papa asks the obvious question, draws the distinction that saves both opinions, or says that both are true and each in its own case. Rav Huna son of Rav Yehoshua is his near-constant companion in argument. He is named some sixteen hundred times across thirty-seven tractates, and a student who learns Nezikin will meet him on nearly every daf.
Head of the academy at Naresh; a brewer as well as a rosh yeshiva.
- Studied under
- רבאRava (bar Yosef bar Chama)אבייAbaye
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