Rav Yosef b. Hiyya

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For the 2d generetion Amora sage of Babylon, see Hiyya b. Joseph. For the former Sefardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, see Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
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Rav Yosef b. Hiyya (or Rav Joseph b. Hiyya Hebrew: רב יוסף בר חייא‎, read as Rav Yosef bar chiyya; Also known simply as Rav Yosef or Rav Joseph) was a Jewish Amora sage of Babylon, of the third generation of the Amora era. He was a disciple of R. Judah ben Ezekiel, and R. Abaye's teacher, and a scholarly "Bar Plugata"-opponent of Rabbah bar Nahmani ("Rabbah"), the head of the academy of Pumbedita.


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