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Rabbah bar Naḥmani (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: רבה בר נחמני) (died c. 320 CE) was a Jewish Talmudist known throughout the Talmud simply as Rabbah. He...

Samuel ben Nahman (Hebrew: שמואל בן נחמן) or Samuel [bar] Nahmani (Hebrew: שמואל [בר] נחמני) was a rabbi of the Talmud, known as an amora, who lived in...

Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 16b–17a, Judah and his pupil Rabbah bar Nahmani once visited Rabbah, who was ill, and submitted a halakhic question to him....

uncle, Rabbah bar Nahmani. Abaye was often called "Nahmani" by his friends. According to one opinion, first mentioned by Rashi, he was called Nahmani because...

and was Abaye's teacher, and a scholarly disputant (bar plugata) of Rabbah bar Nahmani. When his teacher Judah died, Yosef was expected to take Judah's place...

edition, pages 1859–78. Genesis Rabbah 58:1. Genesis Rabbah 67:9. Genesis Rabbah 58:2. Genesis Rabbah 58:3. Genesis Rabbah 58:4. Midrash Tanhuma Vayeira...

the presence of Rabbah bar Nahmani. He also had occasion to appear in the court of Rav Chisda. His pupils were Rav Pappa and Huna b. Joshua, who were...

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...

(1900-1966), the "Rabbi of Swat", American Major League Baseball player Rabbah bar Nahmani (c.270 – c.330) Moses Judah HaNasi Gershom ben Judah Moses Maimonides...

poet (d. 318) Rabbah bar Nahmani, Babylonian 'amora Saint Spyridon, bishop of Trimythous (d. 348) Claudius II (Gothicus), Roman emperor (b. 214) Gregory...

studied also under Rav Huna, as well as under Rabbah bar Nahmani along with Rav Samuel, the son of Rabbah bar bar Hana, and Aha bar Hana. After their deaths...

matters R. Isaac Nappaha and R. Shmuel bar Nahmani. Helbo handed down many aggadic sayings of Shmuel bar Nahmani. He is mentioned in the Talmud as a teacher...

published at Constantinople in 1516 begins with a brief exegesis by R. Samuel Naḥmani and R. Tanhuma of the first verse of the pericope "V'Zot HaBerachah" (Deuteronomy...

friends, among whom were R. Abbahu, R. Ḥanina (Ḥinena) b. Pappi, R. Isaac, and R. Samuel ben Nahmani, but the closest and most enduring friendship existed...

III, who was the Rabbi teacher of Rav Ashi, and a disciple of Rabbah bar Nahmani ("Rabbah"). Rav Kahana III also resided at Pum-Nahara (and thus also known...

contemporary of Rav Safra and of Hiyya bar Rabbah bar Nahmani; also of Rava, before whom he and his brother Rabbah (Rabbin) b. Hinena once appeared as litigants...

Rabbah 19:29. Numbers Rabbah 19:32. Numbers Rabbah 16:18. Babylonian Talmud Nidah 24b. Numbers Rabbah 20:3. Deuteronomy Rabbah 2:5. Leviticus Rabbah 11:6;...

stupid pupil was made monitor until able to grasp the art of learning. Rabbah bar Nahmani fixed the number of pupils at twenty-five for one teacher; if the...

One of the amoraim expressed his opinion in the presence of Samuel ben Nahmani that Job never existed and that the whole story was a fable. An opinion...

Eliezer ben Hurcanus, who lived c. 70 CE, and that by the time of Rabbah bar Nahmani (the 3rd century) there was a "Scroll of Haftarot", which is not further...