Abba Halafta

Talmudic Figures

Rabbi Halafta overlapped with several generations, reporting to Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh what he heard from the latter's grandfather. He lived longer still and interacted with the generation of R. Yochanan b. Nuri in his old age. He was also the father and teacher of R. Yose ben Halafta and the head of an academy in Sepphoris.

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As it is taught in the Tosefta (Bava Batra 2:4) that Rabbi Yosei said: When father Ḥalafta went to study Torah with Rabbi Yoḥanan ben Nuri, and some say that he said: When Rabbi Yoḥanan ben Nuri went to study Torah with father

Bava Kamma 70a:16

Rabbi Yosei said: There was an incident involving my father, Ḥalafta, who went to the esteemed Rabban Gamliel of Yavne in Tiberias, where he found him sitting at the table of Yoḥanan HaNazuf and in his hand there was a translation of the book of Job, and he was reading from it. Yoḥanan said to Rabban Gamliel of Yavne: I remember Rabban Gamliel, your father’s father, who was standing on top of a step on the Temple Mount. And they brought before him a translation of the book of Job…

Shabbat 115a:7

Livedתקופת פעילות

Tannaim - Fourth Generation

c.110 – c.135 CE

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Rabbi Yose b. Chalafta

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