The Sages of the Talmud

רב יצחק בר ביסנא Rav Yitzchak bar Bisna

Amora of Babylonia · 4th generation (c. 320–350 CE) — named 11 times across 9 tractates of the Bavli.

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Rav Yitzchak bar Bisna, of the fourth Babylonian generation; the Bavli writes him with both titles, and the roster marks the entry for review.

He is named some eleven times across nine tractates, spread so thinly that no tractate carries more than two, and two of those are in Shekalim, whose Gemara in our Shas comes from the Yerushalmi. Beyond the generation and the counts, the reference tradition holds little that can be stated firmly.

Rarely cited.

The gematria of the name

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