שמואל Shmuel of Nehardea
Amora of Babylonia · 1st generation (c. 220–250 CE) — named 3,275 times across 38 tractates of the Bavli.
Shmuel of Nehardea, of the first Babylonian generation, headed the academy at Nehardea and was Rav's great counterpart. He had sat before Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi, whom he treated for an ailment of the eyes; he was a physician and an astronomer, and said that the paths of the heavens were as clear to him as the streets of Nehardea. Rav Yehuda and Rav Nachman were his students.
Two things every learner knows him by: the principle dina d'malchuta dina, that the law of the kingdom is law, which governs the Jew's relation to civil authority to this day; and the rule that in monetary law the halakha follows Shmuel against Rav. He is named over three thousand times, and the Bavli quotes him in a transmitter's mouth — amar Shmuel — some six hundred times more.
Head of Nehardea; 'the law of the kingdom is law'. The prophet Samuel is blocked by the scriptural citation words that precede him.
- Studied under
- רביRabbi Yehuda HaNasi (Rebbi)
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