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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.〔Babylonian Talmud Yoma 9b〕 After a somewhat prolonged sojourn in Palestine he returned to Babylonia, residing both at Pumbedita and at Sura. In the former city he at first refused to attend the lectures of Rav Judah ben Ezekiel,〔Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 148a〕 but he soon became his friend, and was consulted by him in difficult cases.〔Babylonian Talmud Mo'ed Katan 17a〕 Judah and his pupil Rabbah b. Naḥmani once visited Rabbah, who was ill, and submitted a halakhic question to him. While they were there a Zoroastrian priest ("geber") suddenly appeared and extinguished the lamp, the day being a festival of Ormuzd, on which Jews were forbidden to have fire in their houses.〔Grätz, "Gesch." 2d ed., iv. 292〕 Rabbah thereupon sorrowfully exclaimed: "O God, let us live either under Thy protection, or at least under the protection of the children of Esau (Romans )".〔Babylonian Talmud Gittin 16b–17a〕 The persecutions of the Babylonian Jews by the Sassanids caused Rabbah to resolve to return to Palestine,〔Babylonian Talmud Pesahim 51a〕 although it is nowhere said that he carried out that intention. During his residence at Sura he wished to introduce the recitation of the Ten Commandments into the daily prayer, but was dissuaded by Rav Chisda.〔Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 12a〕 Later he visited Maḥoza, and he tells of the wonderful feats he saw performed there by a juggler.〔Babylonian Talmud Bava Batra 73a, b〕 ==Haggadic Aphorisms== Some haggadic sayings by Rabbah bar bar Hana have been preserved. Citing , he compares the Torah to fire, in that as fire does not start of itself neither does the Law endure in solitary study.〔Babylonian Talmud Ta'anit 7a〕 His interpretations of and 〔Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 38a, 105a〕 also are noteworthy; his saying that "the soul of one pious man is worth the whole world"〔Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 103b〕 is especially memorable. Rabbah bar bar Hana's stories of his marvelous experiences during his voyages and his journeys through the desert have become famous. These accounts may be divided into two classes. In the first he records his observations, generally beginning with the words "I have seen." Among these are his remarks regarding the identity of the most fertile part of Palestine—"the land flowing with milk and honey";〔Babylonian Talmud Ketubot 111b–112a〕 the distance between Jericho and Jerusalem;〔Babylonian Talmud Yoma 39b〕 the area of the district in the plains of Moab mentioned in as the camp of the children of Israel;〔Babylonian Talmud Yoma 75b〕 the castor-oil plant cultivated in Palestine, or the gourd of Jonah.〔Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 21a〕 Here also belong his accounts of his relations with the Arabs, one of whom once used a term that explained to him the word in .〔Babylonian Talmud Ketubot 72b, 75a; Yevamot 120b; Rosh Hashanah 26b〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rabbah bar bar Hana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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