280 – 352 CE), who is exclusively referred to in the Talmud by the name Rava (רבא‎), was a Babylonian rabbi who belonged to the fourth generation of amoraim...

honorific name Raba, Rava, or Amora-Rava Rava (surname) Another name for the wine grape Ravat blanc Rava, also Sooji, Suji or Bombay rava an Indian term for...

second-generation Amora Rav Chisda, and the wife of the third-generation Amora Rami bar Hama. After her husband's death, she married another Amora, Rava. She is...

Amoraim (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אמוראים [ʔamoraˈʔim], singular Amora אמורא [ʔamoˈra]; "those who say" or "those who speak over the people", or "spokesmen")...

rabbis practiced "magic" themselves or taught the subject. For instance, Rava (amora) created a golem and sent it to Rav Zeira, and Hanina and Hoshaiah studied...

Ḥanan bar Rava (חנן/חנא/חנין בר רב/א) or Ḥanan bar Abba (חנן בר א/בא) was a Talmudic sage and second-generation Babylonian Amora. He lived in Israel, moved...

rabbis practiced "magic" themselves or taught the subject. For instance, Rava (amora) created a golem and sent it to Rav Zeira, and Hanina and Hoshaiah studied...

al-Mada'in; the academy of Pumbedita was relocated to Mahuza during the time of Rava Amora Nehardea Academy (in Nehardea) Pumbedita Academy (in Pumbedita for most...

known simply as Rabbah, Babylonian rabbi known in the Talmud as an Amora Rava (amora) (280–352), rabbi and Talmudic scholar Bob Raba (born 1955), American...

them: Rabbah bar Nahmani ("Rabbah"), Rav Yosef b. Hiyya, Abaye and Amora sage Rava, Savora sages Rabbah Jose and Simuna, and Geonim Rab Rabbah Gaon and...

Rava, Amora in Babylonia (c.280–352) Judah III, scholar, son of Gamaliel IV, Nasi (290–320) Abaye, Talmudist in Babylonia (?–337) Rabbi Jonah, Amora in...

bar Yaakov. He had a son of the name of Rava (Rava b. Joseph b. Hama), who became one of the most prominent Amora sages and the head of the academy of Pumbedita...

Abdima Bar Ḥama. Babylonian amora of the fourth century; contemporary of Rav Safra and of Hiyya bar Rabbah bar Nahmani; also of Rava, before whom he and his...

Babylonian rabbi, of the fifth generation of amoraim. He was a student of Rava and Abaye. After the death of his teachers he founded a school at Naresh...

Rami = R. Ami) was a Babylonian amora of the third generation. He was a pupil of Rav Chisda, and a fellow student of Rava, who was somewhat his junior....

Rav Adda bar Ahavah was a Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora of the second generation (third and fourth centuries), frequently quoted...

Abaye (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַבַּיֵי, romanized: abbayē) was an amora of the fourth generation of the Talmudic academies in Babylonia. He was born...

spelled: Hananyah; Hebrew: רב חנינא or חנניא‎) was second and third generation Amora Sage of the Land of Israel. He was a student of Rabbi Yannai and R. Yochanan...

the great Amora Rav. His father-in-law appears under the name "R. Kahana the father-in-law of R. Mesharshiya". His principle teacher was Rava, and they...

the academy of Pumbedita was relocated to Māḥōzē during the time of the Amora Rava Nehardea Academy (in Nehardea) Pumbedita Academy (in Pumbedita for most...

lit. "Rav Zevid II") was an Amora of Babylon of the fourth and fifth generation of the Amora era. He was a disciple of Rava and a scholarly opponent of...

other Yitzchaks, and since that was due to the arbitrary action of a later amora, the real name of his father can no longer be determined. Regarding the...

academy of Pumbedita was relocated to Mahuza during the time of the Amora sage Rava Nehardea Academy (in Nehardea) Pumbedita Academy (in Pumbedita for...

Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin. One relates that amora Abba ben Joseph bar Ḥama ("Rava") created a person; in the second, two other Sages were...

(Hebrew: הלל נשיאה, Hillel the Nasi), also known simply as Hillel, was an amora of the fifth generation in the Land of Israel. He held the office of Nasi...

year that Rava (the great teacher of Mahuza) died, and he was the first important teacher in the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia after Rava's death. Simai...

in Lower Mesopotamia near what is now the city of Najaf, Iraq. He was an amora of the third generation (died c. 320 CE at the age of ninety-two), and is...

able to reconstruct his knowledge. He was greatly respected by his students Rava and Abaye. He is recorded as speaking, paradoxically, of his humility: "[A...

the term מיתיבי and the Amorai'm unable to “deflect the challenge”. An Amora called Rav is challenged by Tannai’tic sources “and is vindicated by the...

there temporarily. According to a teaching dating from the 4th century, an amora heard in Nehardea certain tannaitic teachings which had until then been...