Biography
Rav Shila lived in the generation of passage from the Tannaim to the Amoraim and is counted among the Amoraim. He apparently learned most of his Torah in Eretz Yisrael before settling in Bavel, where he stood at the head of the “sidra” — the house of learning — in Nehardea. Such was his standing that when Rav arrived in Bavel, Rav himself once served as the amora — the expounder to the assembled public — at Rav Shila’s derashah. Rav Chisda brings a teaching in his name in the Gemara and calls him a “gavra rabbah,” a great man.
The Gemara relates that Rav Shila once erred in a pesak halachah, and Rav wished to place him in nidui; Shmuel held Rav back and clarified the matter with Rav Shila himself, who acknowledged his error, and no nidui was declared. His school in Nehardea carried his name after him: the chachamim of “devei Rav Shila” are cited in the Talmud, though of Rav Shila’s own teachings little beyond an interpretation of a mishnah has come down.
Where traditions differ. Some distinguish the amora Rav Shila from the earlier Rabbi Shila of whom the Gemara tells that he received authority from the government to judge; others identify the two as one.
רב שילא חי בתקופת המעבר בין התנאים לאמוראים ונחשב לאמורא. כנראה שאת רוב תורתו למד בארץ ישראל ולאחר מכן עבר לבבל, בבבל עמד בראש הישיבה ("סידרא") בנהרדעא.
Shela was a Babylonian teacher of the latter part of the tannaitic and the beginning of the amoraic period, and head of the school ("sidra") at Nehardea. When Rav visited Babylonia, he once officiated as an expounder (amora) for R. Shela at his public lectures. The school at Nehardea was named in honor of Shela; and its scholars were accordingly known as "D'Bei R. Shela."
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