הרב חנן בר רבא

Rav Chanan bar Rava (215–297) was one of the great amoraim of Bavel in the second generation, and the son-in-law of Rav. He appears only a handful of times in the Talmud Bavli. His daughter was the wife of Rav Chisda.

What has reached us from him he brings mostly in the name of his father-in-law. He taught in Rav’s name that a large wild animal has the status of a small domesticated animal with regard to pirkus, though not with regard to sale; and that a mavoi breached at its side is disqualified by a gap of ten amot, while a breach at its head disqualifies already at four, since many pass through there and it comes to resemble a reshut harabim — a ruling that Rav Huna disputes, and the halachah follows Rav Huna. In Masechet Shabbat his words carry the sharp view Chazal took of coarse speech.