The Sages of the Talmud

רב סמא בריה דרב אשי Rav Sama son of Rav Ashi

Amora of Babylonia · 7th generation (c. 425–460 CE) — named 20 times across 10 tractates of the Bavli.

Amora of Babylonia · 7th generation×20 named in the Bavli10 tractates

Rav Sama son of Rav Ashi, of the seventh Babylonian generation, was one of Rav Ashi's sons; the Bavli writes him both with the patronymic and without it. Mar bar Rav Ashi, of the same house, is the better known of the two.

He is named some twenty times across ten tractates, heaviest in Ketubot, and Ravina and his father are the names he stands beside most. He belongs to the generation in which the Talmud was closing.

Son of Rav Ashi.

The gematria of the name

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