Jeremiah bar Abba
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Jeremiah bar Abba [http://www.joshua-parker.net/sages/result.php?sage_id=133 Rav Yirmeyah b. Abba | רב ירמיה בר אבא], sages of the talmud | חכמי התלמוד (or Rav Yirmeyah bar Abba ; Hebrew: רב ירמיה בר אבא) was a Babylonian rabbi who lived around the mid-3rd century (second generation of amoraim). He is cited many times in the Jerusalem Talmud, where he is mentioned simply as Rav Jeremiah, without his patronymic name.The identity of the two is proven in comparison between the Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 12b, and its equivalent in the Jerusalem Talmud, Shabbat 1:3.
SomeSefer Yuhasin identify Jeremiah bar Abba with Jeremiah Rabbah (Rabbah = "the Great"),Cited once in the Talmud: Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 29b a sage who lived in Basra. According to this assertion he also lived in Basra.
Biography
Little is known about Jeremiah's family: His father was named "Abba", and was a famous Baal teshuva of his generation. (According to another version: the brother of his father, called "Aha" was the famous Baal teshuva).Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 56a Huna b. Hiyya (of Pumbdita) was his son-in-law,Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 156a; Hullin 93a and his son and grandson are also mentioned as sages.Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot, 26a, 31a For a certain period of time he lived in a place called Shumtamya, which is not known from any other sources.
His son was the rabbi Raba Bar Jeremiah.
Jeremiah was primarily a student of Rav, and usually acted in accordance with his rulings.Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 12b, Pesahim 106b However, he was considered as a Fellow Student of his, and would address him in a second, and third Grammatical person form as is common among students and rabbis.Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 27b
Jeremiah debates many known contemporary scholars: Rav Huna, Judah ben Ezekiel and more. Rav Nachman once addressed him in a matter of a Jewish law.Babylonian Talmud, Bava Batra 153a Most of his references in the Talmud are laws delivered by him in the name of the most prominent scholars of his generation: Rav, Samuel of Nehardea, and Yochanan bar Nafcha. Several times he reports that the beit midrash of Rav asked questions to Samuel after the death of Rav, and gives Samuel's answer.Yitzhak Isaac Halevy Rabinowitz, Dorot Harishonim, ch. 43
Jeremiah bar Abba II
Some are of the opinion that there were two sages named Jeremiah bar Abba, one in the second Amora generation, and the other in the third generation,Tosafot to Pesahim 106b; Yitzhak Isaac Halevy Rabinowitz, Dorot Harishonim, part 5, p. 229; Aaron Hyman, Toldoth Tannaim Ve'Amoraim, Article: Jeremiah b. Abba This is based on the words of Ulla, that Jeremiah was the student of Rav Huna, the pupil of Rav.Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 46a According to that opinion, the statements of Jeremiah in the name of Yochanan bar Nafcha belong to the latter one.
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- [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=230&letter=J&search=Jeremiah JEREMIAH B. ABBA] article at jewishencyclopedia.com
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