רב ספרא Rav Safra
Amora of Babylonia · 4th generation (c. 320–350 CE) — named 150 times across 27 tractates of the Bavli.
Rav Safra, of the fourth Babylonian generation, was a merchant who travelled between Babylonia and Eretz Yisrael, and he is remembered above all for honesty in business: the tradition tells that a buyer offered a price while he was reciting the Shema and, receiving no answer, raised it, and Rav Safra afterwards sold at the first price, because he had already agreed to it in his heart. The verse about one who speaks truth in his heart is read of him.
He learned in Rava's and Abaye's circle and appears constantly in their company. He is named some hundred and fifty times across twenty-seven tractates, heaviest in Shabbat and Bava Metzia.
The merchant of the honest word.
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