Biography
Rav Nachman bar Yaakov was an amora. He appears in the Gemara among the leading sages of his generation, and the cited material gives a glimpse of his prominence: in Gittin (31b) Rava and Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak are seated when Rav Nachman bar Yaakov passes by, riding in a golden carriage with a fine cloak spread over him. Rava rose and went over to him, while Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak did not, remarking that he might be from the household of the Reish Galuta (Exilarch) — explaining that Rava had need of them but he himself did not.
This passage situates Rav Nachman bar Yaakov in close association with the circles of authority and standing in his time, and records the differing reactions of his fellow sages to his bearing.
Where traditions differ. The supplied passages mention him chiefly through an account of others' conduct toward him rather than his own teachings, so little of his halachic or aggadic positions can be drawn from the material here.
רב נחמן בר יעקב היה מגדולי אמוראי בבל בדור השני והשלישי, ראש ישיבת נהרדעא ומעמודי התווך של התלמוד הבבלי. רב נחמן היה עשיר ובעל נכסים, חתנו של ראש הגולה, דיין מפורסם ומגדולי דורו בהלכה ובאגדה. התמחה במיוחד בדיני ממונות, עד שנקבעה הלכה כמותו בכל מחלוקת הקשורה בנושאים אלו.
Rav Nachman bar Yaakov was a prominent Jewish Talmudic sage (Amora) of the third generation, who lived in Babylonia. He is generally identified with the figure referred to simply as Rav Nachman in the Babylonian Talmud. He was married to Yalta, who is mentioned several times in Talmudic literature.
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