Rabbi Abbahu (Hebrew: אבהו) was a Jew and Talmudist of the Talmudic Academies in Syria Palaestina from about 279 to 320 CE and is counted a member of the...

Samuel b. Abbahu (Hebrew: רב שמואל בריה דרב אבהו, Rav Shmuel Beria DeRav Abbahu, or רב שמואל בר רבא, read as Rav Shmuel Bar Rabbah) was a Babylonian rabbi...

be four blasts, then Rabbi Abbahu's requirement makes for a total of 30 blasts. According to another opinion, Rabbi Abbahu instituted a total of 12 rather...

soon drew large numbers of gifted students, native and foreign, among them Abbahu, Rabbi Ammi, Rabbi Assi, Eleazar ben Pedat, Hiyya bar Abba, Jose bar Hanina...

folk etymology connecting cherub to a Hebrew word for "youthful" is due to Abbahu (3rd century).(p 1) The Israelite cherubim are described as fulfilling a...

God alone did not create the world. In Genesis Rabbah 2:2, the amoraim Abbahu and Shimon ben Pazi give analogies in which tohu wabohu means "bewildered...

Gamaliel's humility: Once when Abbahu asked him a question about the law, Gamaliel speaks of his own ignorance in comparison with Abbahu. Grätz, Gesch. 3d ed....

of the household of Rabbi Abbahu, in which they would slaughter a calf at the conclusion of each Shabbat and Rabbi Abbahu would eat one of its kidneys...

participant in the discussions at the Yeshivot of Sura and Mahuza. Rabbi Abbahu (d. early 4th century), disciple of Rabbi Yochanan. Dean of the Yeshiva...

principle said to have been carried into practice by R. Eleazar and R. Abbahu (ib.). Prayer was not to be read as one would read a letter (ib.). Berachot...

Funk & Wagnalls. Mishna Chagiga 2:2 Yevamot 45a; Menachot 32b; compare Abbahu's sentence, Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 30a Pesachim 37b; Shabbat 156a; Frankel...

Straton's Tower at Caesarea Maritima. This may be a reference to Rabbi Abbahu's identification of Ekron with Caesarea in Megillah. Robinson first identified...

interpretations of the former may have bearing on the latter. In Piska 19.5, Rabbi Abbahu cites Isaiah 53:10 as evidence for why a sick person who sees a seminal...

Chiyya, the darshan, and flocked to hear R. Abbahu, the maggid. To appease the sensitive Chiyya, Abbahu modestly declared, "We are like two merchants...

and thus he said to R. Abbahu that there is a need to prefer his and R. Abin and R. Measha's opinion over the opinions of R. Abbahu and the rest of the young...

those that the Ark rejected had certainly been the object of sin. And Rabbi Abbahu taught that Noah took only those animals (fulfilling that condition) that...

Hiyya and his associates might have suffered disastrous consequences if Abbahu himself had not come to their assistance. Hiyya was forced to lecture from...

said to R. Abbahu that for this reason his and Jeremiah (I), Abin I, and R. Measha's opinions should be preferred over the opinions of R. Abbahu, R. Isaac...

Abbahu, saying that they did not find that Enoch died, but that God "took" him, just as 2 Kings 2:1 says that God would "take" Elijah. Rabbi Abbahu reasoned...

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Babylonia (?–320) Raba bar Rav Huna Rami bar Hama Rav Shmuel bar Yehudah Abbahu, Talmudist in Palestine (c.279–320) Rava, Amora in Babylonia (c.280–352)...

flourished at the end of the 3rd century. He was greatly respected by Rabbi Abbahu and praised as an example of modesty. Sotah 40a  This article incorporates...

your hand," implying that Moses should slay Og with his own hand. Rabbi Abbahu said in Rabbi Eleazar's name that "his trained men" in Genesis 14:14 meant...

Jacob. This time noting that he prepared medicine for the leg of Rabbi Abbahu, a distinguished man. The name Jacob the Min for him comes from this passage...

explained". Twice, R. Ahai is mentioned together with his friend, Samuel b. Abbahu. Once, R. Ahai is mentioned disagreeing with Rabbah Jose, the head of the...

weighed or measured or numbered, but only in a thing hidden from sight. Rabbi Abbahu taught that Moses asked God how Israel would be exalted, and God replied...

religious law that had been addressed to himself. Zeira was highly esteemed by Abbahu, the rector at Caesarea, of whom he considered himself a pupil. He was ordained...

18:23–32 change God's harsh decree? Could it have? On this subject, Rabbi Abbahu interpreted David's last words, as reported in 2 Samuel 23:2–3, where David...

Genesis 33:14, Rabbi Abbahu said that he searched the whole Scriptures and did not find that Jacob ever went to Esau at Seir. Rabbi Abbahu asked whether it...

his face shine": in the Jerusalem Talmud, a story is related on how Rabbi Abbahu went down to Tiberias. [When he arrived there], the students of Rabbi Johanan...