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Ḥanan bar Rava (חנן/חנא/חנין בר רב/א) or Ḥanan bar Abba (חנן בר א/בא) was a
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sage and second-generation Babylonian Amora. He lived in
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, moved to
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with Abba b. Aybo, and died there ca. 290 CE. He is distinct from the late-generation Babylonian Amora of the same name who apparently conversed with
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(352-427 CE). Ḥanan b. Rava's father was not Abba b. Joseph b. Ḥama (called Rava in the Talmud), who lived a century later. Ḥanan b. Rava was the son-in-law of Abba b. Aybo (Rav), tutored Rav's son Hiyya b. Rav, and is often quoted relaying
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's teachings or describing his customs. He was the father-in-law of Ḥisda, by whom he had at least seven grandsons, two granddaughters, two great-granddaughters, and four great-great-grandchildren, including Amemar b. Yenuqa. Bizna, Z'era, Kahana b. Taḥlifa, Nachman b. Yaakov, G'neva, Ḥisda,
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, and others relay his teachings in the Talmud. In 1997, the
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cited Ḥanan b. Rava's dictum, "All know for what purpose a bride enters the bridal canopy. Yet against whomsoever speaks obscenely thereof, even if a sentence of seventy years happiness has been sealed for him, it is reversed for evil," in establishing guidelines for legal censorship of pornography.


Events

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to Ḥiyya b. Rav in a booth of
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_dispute. *_Ḥanan_b._Rava_thought_that_relatives_were_permitted_to_testify_together_about_the_coming_of_the_New_Moon_because_he_had_misattributed_the_two_positions_thereon._He_was_corrected_by_Rav_Huna.html" ;"title="Halakha.html" "title="Abin_I.html" ;"title="Jeremiah_bar_Abba.html" ;"title="Judah_bar_Ezekiel.html" ;"title="Rabbi_Yosei.html" "title="Sabbath">n_the_Sabbath--_the_words_of_Rabbi_Meir.html" "title="Sabbath">n_the_Sabbath.html" ;"title="Sabbath.html" ;"title="n the Sabbath">n the Sabbath">Sabbath.html" ;"title="n the Sabbath">n the Sabbath-- the words of Rabbi Meir">Meir Meir ( he, מֵאִיר) is a Jewish male given name and an occasional surname. It means "one who shines". It is often Germanized as Maier, Mayer, Mayr, Meier, Meyer, Meijer, Italianized as Miagro, or Anglicized as Mayer, Meyer, or Myer.Alfre ...
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 permits." Rav signaled him: "Reverse them." * Judah bar Ezekiel">Yehudah b. Ezekiel, Jeremiah bar Abba">Yirmiah b. Abba, and Ḥanan b. Rava traveled to the house of Abin I">Abin of N'shiqya. Couches were brought out for Yehudah b. Ezekiel and Yirmiah b. Abba, but not for Ḥanan b. Rava, who was forced to sit on the ground. Ḥanan b. Rava became incensed, and provoked his host to an Halakha">halakhic ''Halakha'' (; he, הֲלָכָה, ), also transliterated as ''halacha'', ''halakhah'', and ''halocho'' ( ), is the collective body of Jewish religious laws which is derived from the written and Oral Torah. Halakha is based on biblical commandm ...
 dispute. * Ḥanan b. Rava thought that relatives were permitted to testify together about the coming of the New Moon because he had misattributed the two positions thereon. He was corrected by Rav Huna">Huna. * When the Exilarch died, Ḥisda instructed him to stand on a platform, tear his garments, and show them to the masses. By this the masses were instructed how to mourn the Exilarch. * Ḥanan b. Rava went to his son-in-law Ḥisda's house. He took his granddaughter and put her in his lap. Ḥisda accused him of violating religious decency laws, but Ḥanan b. Rava insisted familial affection was permitted. In another version, Ḥanan b. Rava kissed his young granddaughter. * Ḥanan b. Rava and his associates were sitting and eating on the Sabbath. After they had eaten and said Grace, Ḥanan b. Rava arose and departed. He returned, and found his associates saying Grace again! He asked, "Have we not already said Grace?" and the associates responded, "We said Grace, and then said Grace again, because we initially forgot to insert the Sabbath additions." * Once Ḥanan b. Rava said to his associates, "Let me tell you something good I saw
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do." He demonstrated the act. "And I said this before Shmuel b. Abba, and he rose and kissed me on my mouth." *
Rav ''Rav'' (or ''Rab,'' Modern Hebrew: ) is the Hebrew generic term for a person who teaches Torah; a Jewish spiritual guide; or a rabbi. For example, Pirkei Avot (1:6) states that: The term ''rav'' is also Hebrew for ''rabbi''. (For a more nuan ...
was going to the house of his son-in-law Ḥanan b. Rava when he saw a ferry-boat approaching. He said, "A ferry-boat is approaching! It is an omen: tonight will be a
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for my stomach." Rav came to Ḥanan b. Rava's gate and looked through a crack in the door; he saw a spitted animal. He knocked on the gate, and everyone came to greet him, even the butchers. Rav did not lift his eyes from the animal, saying to them, "You would have fed forbidden meat to my grandchildren!" Rav did not eat from the animal.


Selected Teachings


Teachings in

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's name

* If an alley was breached in its side, carrying within that alley on the Sabbath is prohibited if the breach is ten cubits wide. If in the front, even if the breach is only four cubits wide." * Four winds blow on each day, and the north wind with each of the others. Were this not so, the world would not survive a single hour. * All leaders, even minor officials, are chosen by Heaven. * There are five permanent idolatrous temples: the temple of Bel in Babylon, the temple of Nebo in
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, the temple of
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in
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, the temple of
Serapis Serapis or Sarapis is a Graeco-Egyptian deity. The cult of Serapis was promoted during the third century BC on the orders of Greek Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt as a means to unify the Greeks and Egyptians in his r ...
in
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, and the temple of Nasr in
Himyar The Himyarite Kingdom ( ar, مملكة حِمْيَر, Mamlakat Ḥimyar, he, ממלכת חִמְיָר), or Himyar ( ar, حِمْيَر, ''Ḥimyar'', / 𐩹𐩧𐩺𐩵𐩬) (fl. 110 BCE–520s CE), historically referred to as the Homerite ...
. * The order of the blessings is YaQNeHaSZ: first Yayin, then Qiddush, then
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, then
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, then
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, then Z'man. * The
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follows
Judah ha-Nasi Judah ha-Nasi ( he, יְהוּדָה הַנָּשִׂיא‎, ''Yəhūḏā hanNāsīʾ‎''; Yehudah HaNasi or Judah the Prince) or Judah I, was a second-century rabbi (a tanna of the fifth generation) and chief redactor and editor of the ''Mi ...
for Sabbath matters.


Biblical lineages

* Elimelech,
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, and
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were descendants of
Nahshon In the Hebrew Bible, ' ''Nahshon ( he, נַחְשׁוֹן ''Naḥšon'') was a tribal leader of the Judahites during the wilderness wanderings of the Book of Numbers. In the King James Version, the name is spelled Naashon, and is within modern ...
. *
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's father was ʾĂmatlaʾy batʿÔrebtî. *
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's mother was ʾĂmatlaʾy bat Karnebo. *
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's mother was Niṣṣebet bat ʿAdʾēl. *
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's mother was Ṣǝlelpônît, and his sister was Nǝšêq. * Abraham was imprisoned for 10 years: 3 years in
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and 7 years in
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. * When Abraham died, the leaders of the world's nations stood in a line and said "Woe to the world that has lost its leader, and woe to the ship that has lost its captain".


Other Teachings

* There are four types of s'lav: sikhli,
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, '' pasianus'', and sh'lav. The best of all is the sikhli, and the worst of all is the sh'lav. * One may roof their
Sukkah A or succah (; he, סוכה ; plural, ' or ''sukkos'' or ''sukkoth'', often translated as "booth") is a temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot. It is topped with branches and often well decorated w ...
with thorns and shrubs. * If the Ḥazzan begins a chapter of Psalms, there is a
mitzvah In its primary meaning, the Hebrew word (; he, מִצְוָה, ''mīṣvā'' , plural ''mīṣvōt'' ; "commandment") refers to a commandment commanded by God to be performed as a religious duty. Jewish law () in large part consists of discus ...
to respond, repeating the first verse. * Kalenda is held for the eight days after the
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.
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is held for the eight days before the winter solstice. * If you own the four species, you do not have to lift all four. * All know for what purpose a bride enters the bridal canopy. Yet against whomsoever speaks obscenely thereof, even if a sentence of seventy years happiness has been sealed for him, it is reversed for evil. * Abraham served his guests three calf tongues with mustard, food ordinarily reserved for kings and ministers. * "Haššǝsûʿâ" in
Deuteronomy Deuteronomy ( grc, Δευτερονόμιον, Deuteronómion, second law) is the fifth and last book of the Torah (in Judaism), where it is called (Hebrew: hbo, , Dəḇārīm, hewords Moses.html"_;"title="f_Moses">f_Moseslabel=none)_and_th ...
14:7 (usually translated as "that are split through") refers to a specific animal called the Šǝsûʿâ, which has two backs and two spines.


Notes


References

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