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Rabbah B. Ḥiyya of Ctesiphon

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Babylonian amora of the second generation. He is said to have performed the ceremony of ḥaliẓah in a manner which was considered allowable only by one tanna, the majority disapproving. For this he was censured by R. Samuel (Yeb. 704a).

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  • Heilprin, Seder ha-Dorot, p. 337.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Rabbah B. Ḥiyya of Ctesiphon'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​r/rabbah-b-aiyya-of-ctesiphon.html. 1901.
 
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