רב יהודה Rav Yehuda bar Yechezkel
Amora of Babylonia · 2nd generation (c. 250–290 CE) — named 1,920 times across 38 tractates of the Bavli.
Rav Yehuda bar Yechezkel, of the second Babylonian generation, founded the academy at Pumbedita and is one of the two or three men through whom the first generation reaches us. He was the student of both Rav and Shmuel, and he taught Rabbah and Rav Yosef. He is Rav Yehuda, never רבי יהודה, who is the tanna bar Ilai.
Almost a thousand times in this corpus he is the transmitter — amar Rav Yehuda amar Rav, amar Rav Yehuda amar Shmuel — which is to say that a great part of what we know of Rav and Shmuel we know because Rav Yehuda said it. He was exacting to the point of severity about how words are pronounced and rulings repeated, and he held that one should not leave Babylonia for Eretz Yisrael, a position the Talmud records and argues with.
Founded the academy at Pumbedita. NOT רבי יהודה, who is the Tanna bar Ilai.
- Studied under
- רבRav (Abba Arikha)שמואלShmuel of Nehardea
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