Huna ben Joshua
Huna ben Joshua | |
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| Born | |
| Died | 410 |
| Other names | Rav Huna BeReia DeRav Yehoshua |
| Occupation(s) | Talmudist, Scholar |
| Known for | Prominent Amoraic sage, president of the general assembly in the yeshiva of Naresh |
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Huna ben Joshua(Hebrew:רב הונא בריה דרב יהושע,read asRav Huna BeReia DeRav Yehoshua;died 410[1]) was aBabylonianrabbi, of the fifth generation ofamoraim.
Biography[edit]
He was considered one of the most prominent Amoraic sages of his generation.
He was a student ofRava,[2]who seems to have been his principal teacher, and who sometimes praised him,[3]but occasionally blamed him.[4]He appears to have been the pupil ofAbayealso.[5]
He was a colleague and a scholarly opponent (bar plugata) ofRav Papa,from whom he was inseparable, both in and out of school.[6]
When Rav Papa became head of the yeshiva ofNaresh(an academy that later was relocated toMata Mehasia,a suburb ofSuraand itsYeshivathere), Huna was appointed president of the general assembly ( "resh kallah" ) in the same school.[7]
During his studies underRava,he earned his livelihood from a small landed property, enabling him to make the time needed for his studies. Later on, he became a business partner of his colleague Rav Papa, and earned his living from sellingsesame.
Huna was wealthy.[8]He never walked more than four cubits bareheaded.[9]He ate very slowly, so that Rav Papa consumed in the same time four times as much and Rabina eight times as much.[10]
Huna lived to a great age, outliving Rava by 57 years. Once in the lifetime of Rav Papa, Huna fell desperately ill, but his life was spared because he was forbearing.[11]
References[edit]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Singer, Isidore;et al., eds. (1901–1906)."Huna b. Joshua".The Jewish Encyclopedia.New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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