Abbahu information

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

unusually handsome: it was said that his beauty recalled the beauty of Rabbi Abbahu, which in turn recalled the beauty of the patriarch Jacob. This can be learned...

of the West"), was an amora from Syria Palæstina who studied under Rabbi Abbahu. He often travelled to Babylonia. Heinman, Aharon. Toldos Tannaim ve-Amoraim...

despised the word of the Lord." And of one who does stop reciting, Rabbi Abbahu taught that Deuteronomy 32:47 says: "through this word you shall prolong...

Johanan's death the school at Cæsarea attained a new standing under his pupil Abbahu; and throughout the whole of the fourth century the opinions of the "sages...

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...