Rabbi Shimon bar Abba was an amora of the second generation (3rd century CE).
He was a kohen, and a student-colleague of Rabbi Yochanan. He was known for his righteousness.[1] Even though he was knowledgeable in evaluating the worth of gemstones, he never became rich,[2] but being a kohen, he was able to sustain himself from maaser. It is said that a rich landowner named Eliposa wanted to give him maaser, but Shimon was hesitant to accept it due to uncertainty whether Eliposa was reliable in following the laws of terumot and maasrot. Only after Rabbi Yochanan testified to Eliposa's reliability did Shimon accept the maaser.[3]
He may have been a relative or even brother of R. Hiyya bar Abba.[4]
Tractates Shabbat (119b) and Sanhedrin (70a) mention a Babylonian sage known as Rav Amram son of Rabbi Shimon bar of Abba.
Shimonbar Yochai (Zoharic Aramaic: שמעון בר יוחאי, Šimʿon bar Yoḥay) or Shimon ben Yochai (Mishnaic Hebrew: שמעון בן יוחאי), also known by the acronym...
Abbahu, Rabbi Ammi, Rabbi Assi, Eleazar ben Pedat, Hiyya barAbba, Jose bar Hanina, ShimonbarAbba, and Rabbi Isaac Nappaha. As many of his disciples accepted...
Ḥiyya barAbba (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: רבי חייא בר אבא), Ḥiyya bar Ba (רבי חייא בר בא), or Ḥiyya bar Wa (רבי חייא בר ווא) was a third-generation amoraic...
partner, Shmuel. Among the earliest Amoraim in Israel were Johanan bar Nappaha and Shimon ben Lakish. Traditionally, the Amoraic period is reckoned as seven...
Nathan the Babylonian Abba Jose ben Hanan (citing Eliezer) Eliezer ben Hurcanus Rabbi Akiva and his pupils Shimonbar Yochai and Judah bar Ilai Less frequently...
he studied with R. Yochanan bar Nafcha and Shimon ben Lakish, and submitted to them rulings by Rav. Even with Yochanan bar Nafcha he disputed on various...
God manifests Himself, and do not imply any plurality in God. As Rabbi Shimonbar Yochai recounts in the Zohar: Whatever I said of the Atika Kadisha, Holy...
these may be mentioned Eleazar ben Pedat, Rabbi Ammi and Rabbi Assi, Hiyya barAbba, Rav Zeira, Samuel ben Isaac, Jonah, Jose, Jeremiah, Mani, the son of Jonah...
Rabbi Simeon bar Isaac bar Avon of Mainz (also known as Rabbi Shimon ben Yitzchak, Rabbi Simeon the Great, (Hebrew: שמעון בן יצחק; c. 950 - c. 1020) was...
and composed by Arie Levanon and was performed by Aliza Kashi and by ShimonBar. The idea for the competition came from Kol Yisrael producer Israel Daliyot...
agreement, making him the third longest serving after Tawfik Toubi and Shimon Peres. Vilner's Soviet loyalist line was highly appreciated by the USSR;...
Mount Meron, Israel, during the annual pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Shimonbar Yochai on the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer, at which it was estimated...
of a rally in support of the Oslo Accords, Rabin's temporary successor Shimon Peres decided to call early elections in order to give the government a...
ordained Eleazar, together with Rabbi Meir, Jose ben Halafta, Judah bar Ilai, and Shimonbar Yochai, at a secluded spot between Usha and Shefa-Amr. The ordainer...
later source, his given name was Shimon rather than Eleazar. In Kohelet Rabbah, the given name of Bar Kapparah is Abba. Bar Kappara was a pupil of Judah ha-Nasi...
Rabbi Meir, Joshua ben Karha, Issi ben Judah, Nathan the Babylonian, Shimonbar Yochai, and a student of Rabbi Ishmael not otherwise designated. Except...
portfolio Aryeh Leib Dulchin, former minister, former chairman of Jewish Agency Abba Eban (1915–2002), diplomat and Foreign Minister of Israel 1966–1974 Yuli-Yoel...
Yirmeyah. He was the student of Rabbi Ammi (his principle teacher), R. Shimon ben Lakish, R. Eleazar ben Pedat, and R. Judah ben Ezekiel. He used to copy...
Māšīaḥ ben Yōsēf), also known as Mashiach bar/ben Ephraim (Aram./Heb.: מָשִׁיחַ בַּר/בֶּן אֶפְרַיִם Māšīaḥ bar/ben Efrayīm), is a Jewish messiah from the...
Sakhin Rabbi Yossi bar Yaakov Rabbi Chiya from the Zohar Rabbi Abba from the Zohar Rabbi Yehuda from the Zohar Rabbi Hezekiah bar Rav Rabbi Yossi from...
compromise with Israel's neighbours. The following year, Shimon Peres on behalf of Israel, and Mahmoud Abbas for the PLO, signed the Oslo Accords, which gave...
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