The Sages of the Talmud

רב שיזבי Rav Shizvi

Amora of Babylonia · 4th generation (c. 320–350 CE) — named 34 times across 15 tractates of the Bavli.

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Rav Shizvi, of the fourth Babylonian generation. He is named some thirty-four times across fifteen tractates, heaviest in Eruvin and Chullin, and carries teachings in the names of Rav Chisda and Rav Nachman.

Rav Chisda and Rava are the names he stands beside most in the corpus, which places him where the roster places him: in the Babylonia of the generation that runs from Rav Chisda to Rava.

Of the fourth generation.

The gematria of the name

Computed from the consonantal letters of רב שיזבי by the same engine that runs every search. This is the value of a NAME — no word of the Talmud is valued anywhere in this app.

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