רב ששת Rav Sheshet
Amora of Babylonia · 3rd generation (c. 290–320 CE) — named 686 times across 37 tractates of the Bavli.
Rav Sheshet, of the third Babylonian generation, learned from Rav Huna and was blind. What he could not read he had by heart, and the Talmud presents him as a walking store of baraitot: where an argument turns on whether such a teaching exists, Rav Sheshet is the one who can produce it.
He is set against Rav Nachman on page after page — Rav Nachman the judge and master of civil law, Rav Sheshet the master of received tradition — and the pairing is one of the useful habits of mind a student picks up early, because the two argue from different kinds of knowledge. He is named some seven hundred times across thirty-seven tractates and is quoted by others some thirty times.
Blind, and a walking store of baraitot.
- Studied under
- רב הונאRav Huna
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