• Hoshaiah Rabbah or Hoshaʻyā Rabbā (Hebrew: הושעיה רבה) was an amora of the first generation in Rabbinic Judaism and a compiler of baraitot explaining...
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  • Hoshaiah is a biblical name. It may refer to: Hoshaiah Rabbah (c.200), an amora (Jewish scholar) of the first generation Hoshaiah II (died c.350), an...
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    to the first book of the Torah, assigned by tradition to the amora Hoshaiah Rabbah, who flourished in the third century in Roman-ruled Syria Palaestina...
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    Maimonides' Introduction to Mishneh Torah, the barayata were compiled by Hoshaiah Rabbah and Bar Kappara, although no other compilation was passed down that...
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    are the great mishnayot, such as the mishnah of R. Hiyya Rabbah and that of R. Hoshaiah Rabbah, and that of Bar Kappara. I planted trees in them of all...
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  • refused to supersede Efes, who was his senior by two years and a half. Hoshaiah Rabbah was one of his disciples, and reported in his name several aggadic...
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    first generation of Amoraim after his death are: Hanina bar Hama and Hoshaiah Rabbah in Eretz Yisrael, Abba Arikha and Samuel of Nehardea in Babylon (the...
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    however, have been Hoshaiah Rabbah, as Abraham Epstein assumes, as might be inferred from Abraham ibn Daud's reference, for Hoshaiah is mentioned in the...
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  • family of great sages, and the brother of R. Hoshaiah Rabbah. Hoshaiah is once referred to as "Rabbi Hoshaiah bar Rabbi Hama", which suggests that Hanina...
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  • teachers to the end of their days. This was particularly the case with Hoshaiah Rabbah. He, too, moved from Sepphoris to Caesarea, where he opened a college...
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