- bar Nafḥa or Napaḥa), also
known simply as
Rabbi Yochanan or
Johanan bar
Nafcha (180–279 CE), was a
leading rabbi and second-generation
Amora during the...
- most
prominent pupils was R.
Yochanan bar
Nafcha, and as long as
Hezekiah was present,
Yochanan bar
Nafcha was not
appointed as dean of the
Yeshiva out...
- of R.
Yochanan bar
Nafcha, and
served as a
dayan (religious judge). He was
ordained as a
rabbi by his own rabbi—Yochanan bar
Nafcha. He
became a leading...
- in the
early Amoraic era or earlier. In the Talmud,
Rabbi Yochanan bar
Nafcha (180-279 CE)
states that
Nishmat should be
recited during the P****over Seder...
-
pupil of R.
Yochanan bar
Nafcha, and a
colleague of R. Abbahu. He is
cited in the
Talmud debating halakha with R.
Yochanan bar
Nafcha, and as a
colleague of...
-
Gordon Shmuel Hanovitz Yitzhak Hecker Gershon Kopler Menachem Korakin David Nafcha Israel Norden-Nord
Avraham Nuriel Neriel Paglin Mordechai Plonchik Ze'ev...
- with the
Amora sages of
Tiberias Beit Midrash,
headed by R.
Yochanan bar
Nafcha and his students, R. Abbahu, R.
Eleazar ben Pedat, and his main scholarly...
-
general human learning. "He who
understands astronomy", says
Yochanan bar
Nafcha, "and does not
pursue the
study of it, of that man, it is written: 'But...
-
moved to live in the Land of Israel, in the beit
midrash of
Yochanan bar
Nafcha in Tiberias. Once, when Rav
Giddel was in the
process of
buying a field...
- 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, and the
brother of R. Hoshaiah...
