רב הונא בריה דרב יהושע

Rav Huna brei d’Rav Yehoshua was a Babylonian amora whose teachings appear widely throughout the Talmud, most densely in the tractates of Kodashim (Tamid, Keritot, Temurah, Arakhin, Bekhorot, Menachot, Zevachim) and Taharot (Niddah, Chullin). The cited passages show him engaged primarily in questions of ritual law: the laws of forbidden mixtures and priestly garments, the rules of leprous spots and damaged lungs in determining whether an animal is fit (tereifah), the status of produce regarding terumah and challah, and intricate matters of vows, valuations, and sacrificial blood.

He is repeatedly recorded in dialogue with Rav Pappa — sometimes posing questions, sometimes answering — and also appears in exchanges with Rava, Rav Chisda, and Ravina. He transmits teachings in the name of Rabbi Yonah, who cited Rabbi Ami, including the well-known dictum that a person should always complete the weekly Torah portion together with the congregation, reading the text twice and the Aramaic translation once (Shnayim Mikra cited in Orach Chaim 285). (You can complete Shnayim Mikra each week from our Torah library). He is also noted for practical rulings, such as his method of separating terumah from wine and his determinations about which enclosures and ponds (e.g., “the ponds of Neresh”) count as cultivated settlement.