Rabbi Yannai (or Rabbi Jannai; Hebrew: רבי ינאי) was an amora who lived in the 3rd century, and of the first generation of the Amoraim of the Land of Israel...

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Rabbi Yannai and others, and colleague of Johanan bar Nappaha. Johanan bar Nappaha (d. 279 or 289), disciple of Judah haNasi and Rabbi Yannai. Dean of...

mentioned without this title. It is told that he married the daughter of Rabbi Yannai. After he married, he went to study at a beth midrash all week, and would...

Chananel; et al. (2003), Hut ha-meshulash, p. 183, Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish as well as his colleague Rabbi Yannai said that there is no such thing as the popular...

address. The school of Rabbi Yannai deduced from the word Di-zahab that Moses spoke insolently towards heaven. The school of Rabbi Yannai taught that Moses...

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

firmament. Rabbi Yannai taught that from the very beginning of the world’s creation, God foresaw the deeds of the righteous and the wicked. Rabbi Yannai taught...

one was thus prohibited to benefit from a corpse. And the School of Rabbi Yannai taught that one was prohibited to benefit from the cow because Deuteronomy...

(eds.), 'Four Views on Hell', p. 64 (1997). 'Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish as well as his colleague Rabbi Yannai, said that there is no such thing as the popular...

laws of Yom Kippur in Leviticus 16 and 23:26–32 and Numbers 29:7–11. Rabbi Yannai taught that from the very beginning of the world's creation, God foresaw...

Numbers 19 (which came into force as soon as the Tabernacle was set up). Rabbi Yannai taught that from the very beginning of the world’s creation, God foresaw...

sages: Rabbi Nehurai also Rabbi Yannai and Rabbi Dostai his son are buried "in the gardens" "by the spring". According to tradition, the body of Rabbi Elazar...

Jerusalem Talmud, Rabbi Judan said in the name of Rabbi Isaac that God saved Moses from Pharaoh's sword. Reading Exodus 2:15, Rabbi Yannai asked whether it...

address. The school of Rabbi Yannai deduced from the word Di-zahab that Moses spoke insolently towards heaven. The school of Rabbi Yannai taught that Moses...

that he might have no right to appeal for God's further assistance). Rabbi Yannai taught that when people expose themselves to danger and are saved by...

Samuel 21:2, David extended the decree for all generations. The school of Rabbi Yannai relied on the reference in Deuteronomy 29:9–10 to "the hewer of your...

laws of Yom Kippur in Leviticus 16 and 23:26–32 and Numbers 29:7–11. Rabbi Yannai taught that from the very beginning of the world's creation, God foresaw...

versed in halakhah, in which he often reported opinions in behalf of Rabbi Yannai, but no original decisions have come down from him. In the field of the...

poems, Yannai's work was essentially lost until its rediscovery in the Cairo Genizah. Medieval rabbi Ephraim of Bonn records a story in which Yannai became...

also one was thus prohibited to benefit from a corpse. The School of Rabbi Yannai taught that one was prohibited to benefit from the heifer because Deuteronomy...

the man asked him," "And the man said," Rabbi Yannai deduced that three angels met Joseph. The Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer read the word "man" in Genesis 37:15–17...

as according to the opinion of the Tosafot. Among his colleagues were Rabbi Yannai, who was older than him, Bar Kappara, Rav Kahana I, and R. Joshua ben...

actuality, he made no such vow nor designation. Shemuel (the amora) and Rabbi Yannai, who explained the sense of the same Mishnah, stated that the Mishnah...

halakhic demonstration before Yannai, and the latter praised him for it, Shimon boldly declared, "In spite of Rabbi Yannai's great praise, R. Yochanan's...

popular. Additionally, argues Luzzatto, Rabbi Gershom ben Judah mentions Yannai and uses honorific terms, something Rabbi Gershom would not have done if the...

third generation Amora Sage of the Land of Israel. He was a student of Rabbi Yannai and R. Yochanan bar Nafcha. He was the scion of a family of great sages...

terms of reciprocity for such a contract to hold up as good. Thus said R. Yannai: "The conditions written in a ketubah, [when breached], are tantamount to...

("Toledot Yeshu'") that originated in the Middle Ages.…The references to Yannai, Salome Alexandra, and Joshua b. Peraḥyah indicate that according to the...

the case of Rabbi Joshua ben Perahiah? E. When King Yannai put the Rabbis to death. [Shim'on ben Shetah was hidden by his sister and] Rabbi Joshua ben...