The Sages of the Talmud

רב עולא Rav Ulla

Amora of Babylonia · 4th generation (c. 320–350 CE) — named 15 times across 9 tractates of the Bavli.

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Rav Ulla, of the fourth Babylonian generation. This entry exists because of a single letter: the Bavli's great nachota Ulla carries no title at all, and this sage is separated from him only by the רב — or, in some places, רבי — that stands before the name. The roster marks the entry for review, and it should be read as the residue of that separation rather than as a life.

He is named some fifteen times across nine tractates, five of those inside another's patronymic, leaving ten where the form is the one cited. Three of those are in Shekalim, whose Gemara comes from the Yerushalmi.

Distinguished from the nachota עולא only by the title.

The gematria of the name

Computed from the consonantal letters of רב עולא 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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Talmud Bavli, Wikisource edition, via Sefaria — CC BY-SA 4.0. A mention is an occurrence of a name-form the roster lists, found by longest match — not a scholarly attribution census; the index says what that means in full.