Jose bar Hanina

{{Short description|Member of the second generation of the Amoraim}}

Rabbi Jose bar Hanina ({{langx|he|רבי יוסי בר חנינא}}, read as Rabbi Yossi bar Hanina) was an amora of the Land of Israel, from the second generation of the Amoraim.

Biography

He was a disciple of R. Yochanan bar Nafcha,Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Me'ilah, 16b; and Tractate Yebamoth, 27b and served as a dayan (religious judge).Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Bava Kamma, 39a He was ordained as a rabbi by his own rabbi—Yochanan bar Nafcha.Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, 30b He became a leading Torah sage, with Rabbi Assi calling him a "great man".Bava Kamma 42b Later he became a "Talmid Haver", a colleague-disciple, to Yochanan bar Nafcha, and even disputed and debated him in halakhic matters.i.e: B. Talmud, Tractate Bava Kamma, 39a; and Tractate Shabbat, 49a This is how he also got to know R. Shimon ben Lakish and R. Eleazar ben Pedat, whom he also disputed and debated in halakha.B. Talmud, Tractate Berakhot, 22b; and Tractate Eruvin, 103a The Talmud cites him many times, and other amoraim delivered halachic teachings in his name, among them R. Abbahu and R. Hamma bar Ukba. In addition, some of his aggadic teachings are recorded.

References

Category:Talmud rabbis of Syria Palaestina