רב שישא בריה דרב אידי Rav Sheisha son of Rav Idi
Amora of Babylonia · 6th generation (c. 375–425 CE) — named 59 times across 25 tractates of the Bavli.
Rav Sheisha son of Rav Idi, of the sixth Babylonian generation, was the son of Rav Idi bar Avin of Pumbedita and belongs to Rav Ashi's circle in the last amoraic generation.
He is cited some sixty times across twenty-five tractates, spread evenly. His characteristic contribution is the resolving one — proposing how two conflicting statements may both stand — which is the work the last generation did in settling the material that had come down to it.
Of Rav Ashi's circle.
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