Yehudah brei deRabbi Chiyya

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Rav Yehudah brei d’Rabbi Chiyya lived in the generation that bridged the tannaim and the amoraim. His parents were Rav Chiyya and his wife Yehudit, his twin brother was Chizkiyah, and his teachings appear many times in the Gemara, above all in Seder Kodashim.

When he came of age he took Rabbi Yannai’s daughter as his wife. After the marriage he would sit in the beit midrash the whole week and return home for Shabbat, with a pillar of fire going before him. Once he was so deep in a sugya that he did not notice that the hour had come at which he was accustomed to come home — the time set for talmidei chachamim to fulfill the mitzvah of onah, once a week. Hearing of it, his father-in-law Rabbi Yannai said that Yehudah must have been niftar, for had he been alive he would surely not have let that mitzvah pass. The chachamim of the Gemara explain that his words were like an error that goes out from before the ruler: the word of a tzaddik must come true even where he did not intend it, and his son-in-law was niftar.

רבי יהודה בן רבי חייא היה אמורא בתקופת המעבר בין תנאים לאמוראים, בנם של רבי חייא ויהודית, ותאומו של חזקיה.

Yehudah ben Chiyyah was a Jewish Amora sage of the Land of Israel, during the transitional period between the Tannaic and Amoraic eras.

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