Rabbah bar bar Hana

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rabbah bar bar Hana was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an Amora of the second generation. He was the grandson of Hana and the brother of Hiyya. He went to Palestine and became a pupil of Rav Yochanan, whose sayings he transmitted. Rabbah Bar Bar Hana is especially well known for a collection of aggadic stories about him recorded in the Babylonian Talmud in the fifth chapter of Bava Batra. Rabbah bar bar Hana (Rabbah bar Rabbah bar Hana) does not seem to have enjoyed high regard in his adopted country, for it was taken as a matter of course that Rav Shimon ben Lakish should not do him the honor of addressing him in public.... Mehr