Ḥanan bar Rava (חנן/חנא/חנין בר רב/א) or Ḥanan bar Abba (חנן בר א/בא) was a
Talmudic
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sage and second-generation
Babylonian Amora. He lived in
Israel, moved to
Babylonia 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
Ashi
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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
Rav
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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,
Abin
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, and others relay his teachings in the Talmud.
In 1997, the
Supreme Court of Israel 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
* Ḥanan b. Rava taught a
mishnah to
Ḥiyya b. Rav in a booth of
Rav
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