Rav Yosef bar Hiyya (Hebrew: רב יוסף בר חייא), or simply Rav Yosef, was a Babylonian rabbi of the third generation of amoraim. Yosef was a student of Judah...

or not. One of his colleagues was Rav Yosef bar Hiyya. The Talmud cites a dispute between Rav Hiyya and Rav Yosef regarding the precise measure of a...

Talmud's Avodah Zarah Tractate records the interpretation which Rav Yosef bar Hiyya gave to the Biblical reference of King Asa of Judah having "(...)...

Talmud's Avodah Zarah Tractate records the interpretation which Rav Yosef bar Hiyya gave to the Biblical reference of King Asa of Judah having "deposed...

Rav Hiyya bar Joseph (or Rav Hiyya bar Yosef; Hebrew: רבי חייא בר יוסף) was a Babylonian rabbi of the 3rd century (second generation of amoraim). In Babylonia...

purposes. In the text, Abba ben Joseph bar Ḥama, often referred to as "Rava" in the Talmud, asks Rav Yosef bar Hiyya a question about what to do if a man's...

teachers include Rava, Rav Yosef bar Hiyya, and Rav Nachman. Later on he learned from students of Rava and Abaye, including Rav Zevid and Rav Pappa. His students...

Pumbedita, now Falluja, Iraq. Rava's teachers were Rav Yosef bar Hiyya, Rabbah, and, chiefly, Rav Nachman, who lived in Mahoza. His chief study companion...

Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (Hebrew: יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ׳יק Yosef Dov ha-Levi Soloveychik; February 27, 1903 – April 9, 1993) was a major American Orthodox...

Rav Avya was a third-generation Babylonian Amora who was a student of Rav Yosef bar Hiyya and would recite teachings in his name. He was a colleague of...

Jewish sages for generations to come, among them: Rabbah bar Nahmani ("Rabbah"), Rav Yosef b. Hiyya, Abaye and Amora sage Rava, Savora sages Rabbah Jose and...

the presence of Rav Yosef, had discussions with Abaye on various occasions, and likewise gave explanations in the presence of Rabbah bar Nahmani. He also...

these views do not necessarily support any sort of harm to non-Jews. Rav Ovadia Yosef, himself, condemned those who vandalized Arab property, as did the...

development in accordance with the tradition he received. In a Talmudic sugya, Rav Yehudah narrates the story when Moses sees Rabbi Akiva (Menachot 29b). In...

Saʿadia ben Yosef Gaon (892–942) was a prominent rabbi, gaon, Jewish philosopher, and exegete who was active in the Abbasid Caliphate. Saadia is the first...

had no other sons; and the sons of Reḥaviya were very many." And Rav Yosef bar Ḥiyya taught in a baraita that that one can deduce from Scripture's use...

in successive generations. A similar project was carried out by Rabbi Hiyya bar Abba and his student Rabbi Hoshaiah, known as the Tosefta. A collection...

Rav Yosef Caro in the Shulḥan Arukh, and decided to resume his original work, "that will be midway between the two extremes: the lengthy Beit Yosef of...

bar Nappaha who said one should wear the left shoe first. On the other hand, a Baraita says one should wear the right shoe first. Rav Yosef b. Hiyya said...

as Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff writes: Although Rav Yosef Karo had received this semicha and ordained Rav Moshe Alshich, it is not clear he utilized the...

Avdimi of Haifa. See Abdima Bar Ḥama. Babylonian amora of the fourth century; contemporary of Rav Safra and of Hiyya bar Rabbah bar Nahmani; also of Rava,...

Sefer Yetzirah; Solomon ibn Gabirol in his Keter Malkhut, and Abraham bar Hiyya, ha-Nasi and Abraham ibn Ezra considered astrology to be true wisdom and...

under the authority of Babylonia in the opinion attributed to Rabbi Hiyya (Hor.11b). Rav Safra thereon expounds upon the verse in Gen. 49:10 that in Babylonia...

approaching the Mount. In his Scroll of Revelation (c. 1125 CE), Abraham bar Hiyya records that: ... the Romans who destroyed the Temple in the days of the...

grandson of Hezekiah ben David through his eldest son David ben Chyzkia, Hiyya al-Daudi, died in 1154 in Castile according to Abraham ibn Daud and is the...

greatest of his generation (gadol hador). This was based on the words of Hiyya the Great at the death of Judah ha-Nasi. There is debate whether he lived...

relationship the Chabad Hasid has with the Rebbe is called hiskashrus. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn stated, "A bond with me (hiskashrus) is made by studying...

ibn Yahya, David Conforte, and Hayyim Azulai. The chronicle of Abraham bar Hiyya d. c.1136, considered the first chronicle of Jewish Christian Spain, was...

11b. "R. Hiyya, the son of Ashi has said: 'Many times I would rise [in the morning] to go before Rav to recite our readings in the Sifra of Rav's Beit Midrash...

in both Maimonides's main legal work and the Code of Jewish Law by Rabbi Yosef Karo, the decrease in joy during Av is mentioned while the increase during...