רב יוסף Rav Yosef bar Chiya
Amora of Babylonia · 3rd generation (c. 290–320 CE) — named 1,369 times across 37 tractates of the Bavli.
Rav Yosef bar Chiya, of the third Babylonian generation, headed Pumbedita after Rabbah. He was called Sinai — the master of received tradition, one who had learned everything and forgotten nothing — where Rabbah was called the uprooter of mountains. He learned from Rav Yehuda and Rav Huna, and Abaye and Rava learned from him.
Blind in his later years, he is the authority the Talmud cites on the standing of a blind man in the mitzvot, and the Aramaic Targum on the Prophets is transmitted in his name. In illness he lost his learning and Abaye restored it to him piece by piece, reminding him of what he himself had taught — a story the Talmud tells plainly, and one that says much about how the tradition was held and handed on. He is named some fourteen hundred times.
'Sinai' — the master of tradition; head of Pumbedita after Rabbah.
- Studied under
- רב יהודהRav Yehuda bar Yechezkelרב הונאRav Huna
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