The Sages of the Talmud

רב שמן בר אבא Rav Shemen bar Abba

Amora of the Land of Israel · 3rd generation (c. 290–320 CE) — named 28 times across 14 tractates of the Bavli.

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Rav Shemen bar Abba, of the third amoraic generation in Eretz Yisrael, was one of Rabbi Yochanan's students, and the corpus shows him in that role: eight of his citations carry a ruling in Rabbi Yochanan's name.

He is named close to thirty times across fourteen tractates, heaviest in Chullin and Ketubot, and Rabbi Yochanan and Rabbi Chanina bar Chama are the names he stands beside most.

Of Rabbi Yochanan's students.

The gematria of the name

Computed from the consonantal letters of רב שמן בר אבא 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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