Hama bar Hanina was a rabbi who lived in the Land of Israel in the 3rd century (second generation of amoraim). Like his father, Hanina bar Hama, he directed...

Hanina bar Hama (died c. 250) (Hebrew: חנינא בר חמא) was a Jewish Talmudist, halakhist and aggadist frequently quoted in the Babylonian and the Jerusalem...

Rabbi Hama", which suggests that Hanina is the same as Hanina bar Hama, though other opinions suggest they were different individuals. Hanina was a bachelor...

Hama bar Ukva was a third-generation Israeli Amora who flourished between 290-320 CE. Rabbi Hama bar Ukva was a student of Rabbi Jose bar Hanina, and often...

deal wisely with him," when he should have said "with them." Rabbi Ḥama bar Ḥanina said that Pharaoh meant by that: "Come, let us outwit the Savior of...

teachings that he had gleaned from the early Sages who moved to Usha. Hanina bar Hama taught him homiletic Bible interpretation—except of the books of Proverbs...

mentioned in Jeremiah 28 Hanina Segan ha-Kohanim first generation Tanna Hanina, third generation Amora the Land of Israel Hanina bar Hama (d. 250) Haninah, or...

‘O Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?’” Rabbi Hama bar Hanina taught that Abraham was not complaining, but asked God through what...

Rabbi Ḥama bar Ḥanina and Rabbi Samuel ben Naḥmani differed about how prudent it was for Joseph to clear the room in Genesis 45:1. Rabbi Ḥama thought...

learned in the beit midrash of Rabbi Hiyya bar Ashi. He moved to the Land of Israel while Rabbi Hanina bar Hama was still alive. His teachers include Rabbi...

is not a Festival distinct from Passover. Rabbi Levi bar Ḥama (or some say Rabbi Ḥama bar Ḥanina) said that Shemini Atzeret is a Festival in and of itself...

and the end of fulfilling a precept, Rabbi Levi said in the name of Hama bar Hanina that if one begins a precept and does not complete it, and another...

head of the academy, which led Levi and Hanina bar Hama to avoid the academy. When Epes later died and Hanina became head of the academy, Levi moved to...

they lacked nothing". What does it mean that they lacked nothing? R. Hama bar Hanina said: At Solomon's table there were carrots in summer and cucumbers...

Johanan bar Nappaha. Son and successor of Gamaliel IV as NASI, and grandson of Judah II. Rabbi Ammi Rabbi Assi Hanina ben Pappa Raba bar Rav Huna Rami bar Hama...

and the end of fulfilling a precept, Rabbi Levi said in the name of Hama bar Hanina that if one begins a precept and does not complete it, and another...

Reading Genesis 37:13, "And he said to him: 'Here am I,'" Rabbi Hama bar Rabbi Hanina said that after Joseph went missing, Jacob was ever mindful of Joseph...

aide to Rabbi Yannai. He studied in Tzippori under Rabbi Yochanan and Hanina bar Hama. He then studied under Rabbi Judah II, the grandson of Judah haNasi...

Judah also said in the name of Rav (and others say that it was Rabbi Ḥama bar Ḥanina who said) that Joseph died before his brothers because he put on superior...

people to a public position of supervision in property matters. Rabbi Hama bar Ḥanina interpreted the words "the plaited (שְּׂרָד‎, serad) garments for ministering...

to the 39 Melakhot that God taught Moses at Mount Sinai. Similarly, Hanina bar Hama said that the labors forbidden on the Sabbath in Exodus 35:2 correspond...

authority shortens one's life, the Gemara cited the teaching of Rabbi Ḥama bar Ḥanina that Joseph died (as Genesis 50:26 reports, aged 110) before his brothers...

although the dying patriarch had ordered the appointment of Hanina bar Hama to that position. Hanina refused to supersede Efes, who was his senior by two years...

contemporaries; but as he quotes most frequently those of Hama bar Hanina, it may be conjectured that he was Hama's pupil, though he probably studied at R. Johanan's...

was from Babylonia, and she from the land of Israel. In the name of Hanina bar Hama, he transmitted the maxim that he who in the presence of a teacher...

disconnected [from the ground] it cannot live. Rabbi Hama bar Ukva in the name of Rabbi Yossi ben Hanina: The logic of Rabbi Yossi is as follows: [the Torah...

who taught as the first generation of Amoraim after his death are: Hanina bar Hama and Hoshaiah Rabbah in Eretz Yisrael, Abba Arikha and Samuel of Nehardea...

Avdimi of Haifa. See Abdima Bar Ḥama. Babylonian amora of the fourth century; contemporary of Rav Safra and of Hiyya bar Rabbah bar Nahmani; also of Rava,...

bar Kappara's aggadic teachings. The greatest admirers of Judah ha-Nasi and supporters of Judah's patriarchial house, Hanina bar Hama and Johanan bar...

Foka, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Her father was born in Beit Hanina, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem. He moved first to Nicaragua, then to...