רב יוסף בריה דרבא

Rav Yosef bereh deRava was an amora, the son of Rava, who appears across the Talmud bringing his father’s teachings and engaging the leading sages of his generation. He sat in the study hall and learned before Rav Yosef, as recorded in Ketubot, where a poignant episode is told of the years his father set aside for his study and his return home on the eve of Yom Kippur (Ketubot 63a). In Yevamot he questions his father Rava on a ruling about the halachah following Rabbi and Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel (Yevamot 64b).

He brings several halachic teachings in the name of Rava: in Menachot, on the laws of a mezuzah where the doorpost was deepened or fitted with a frame (Menachot 33b), and in Ketubot, on the case of a marriage that had not yet been consummated (Ketubot 4a). He is also found sending questions to Rav Pappa on matters of property and family law — concerning a man who sold his possessions and divorced his wife (Arachin 23b), and the appointment of a guardian for a minor (Gittin 40a). In Beitzah he explains a term regarding carrying on a pole or litter (Beitzah 25b). His teachings touch on the laws of mezuzah, divorce, guardianship, sanctified property, and marriage.