Jose b. Abin ( he, יוסי בר אבין, read as Yossi bar

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: יוסי ברבי בון, read as ''Yossi BeRabbi on of RabbiBon'') was a

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ist, known as an amora of the fifth generation (4th century CE) who lived in the

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in the

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. He was the son of Rabban

Abin I R. Abin (I) (Hebrew: רבי אבין) was a Jewish Amora sage of the Land of Israel, of the third generation of Amoraim. Biography He was one of R. Yochanan bar Nafcha's most prominent pupils. As a young man he even managed to study under Judah ...

and the teacher of Abin II. He was at first the pupil of Rabbi Jose of Yodqart, but the latter's indifference to his own family caused Jose to leave him and follow Assi.

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23b; Weiss, ''Dor,'' iii. 117. Jose was the most important among the last Halakhists of the amoraim of the

. He had a thorough knowledge not only of the Judean customs and halakhot, but of the Babylonian, a fact that has led some scholars to maintain that Jose must have resided at some time in

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. It is probable, however, that he derived his knowledge of Babylonian teaching from his father, who had traveled in Babylonia. Jose's chief work in the field of the Halakhah was the expounding of the

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and the halakhot of the Amoraim, though some halakhot are credited to him. In

aggadah Aggadah ( he, ''ʾAggāḏā'' or ''Haggāḏā''; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַגָּדְתָא ''ʾAggāḏəṯāʾ''; "tales, fairytale, lore") is the non-legalistic exegesis which appears in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, ...

he excelled in the transmission and elucidation of the sayings of his predecessors, especially those of Hiyya,

Joshua ben Levi Joshua ben Levi (Yehoshua ben Levi) was an Amoraim, amora, a scholar of the Talmud, who lived in the Land of Israel in the first half of the third century. He lived and taught in the city of Lod. He was an elder contemporary of Johanan ben Napp ...

Yohanan Yohanan, Yochanan and Johanan are various transliterations to the Latin alphabet of the Hebrew male given name ('), a shortened form of ('), meaning "YHWH :wikt:חנן, is gracious". The name is ancient, recorded as the name of Johanan (High Prie ...

and

Simeon ben Lakish Shim‘on ben Lakish ( he, שמעון בן לקיש; arc, שמעון בר לקיש ''Shim‘on bar Lakish'' or ''bar Lakisha''), better known by his nickname Reish Lakish (c. 200 — c. 275), was an amora who lived in the Roman province of Judae ...

. His chief halakic opponents were Mana II and Jose ben Zebida.

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Waldstein, A. and Solomon Schechter.
"Jose b. Abin". ''

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''. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906; which cites: **Bacher, ''Ag. Pal. Amor.'' iii. 724 et seq.; **Weiss, ''Dor'', iii. 117 et seq.; **Heilprin, ''Seder ha-Dorot'', ii. 224; **Frankel, ''Mebo'', 102a; **Halevy, ''Dorot ha-Rishonim'', iii. 122, ''et seq.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Abin, Jose ben Talmud rabbis of the Land of Israel 4th-century rabbis

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