The Sages of the Talmud

רב ירמיה בר אבא Rav Yirmiya bar Abba

Amora of Babylonia · 2nd generation (c. 250–290 CE) — named 50 times across 17 tractates of the Bavli.

Amora of Babylonia · 2nd generation×50 named in the Bavli17 tractates1 as a patronymic

Rav Yirmiya bar Abba, of the second Babylonian generation, was a companion and student of Rav, and he is quoted in another's name some eighteen times, chiefly Rav's teaching, and cited by others some ten.

He is named some fifty times across seventeen tractates, heaviest in Bava Batra and Eruvin. He appears in the company of Rav Huna, Rav Chisda and Rav Sheshet, and the Talmud preserves several accounts of Rav's personal conduct through him.

A companion of Rav.

The gematria of the name

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