[Avodah] Rabbi Chiyya Ruba

[Micha Berger]

On the same amud, Chullin 28 (as explained by the Leiv Y-m), R' Ba Mari
says that R' Chiyya Ruba -- as he is called in the Y-mi -- is allowed
to argue with a mishnah. That he is called "Ruba" because R' Chiya was
what we on Avodah have called a "throwback" to an earlier era of rabbinic
authority. The way followers of the Gra and the Besht said about their
respective rabbeim arguing with rishonim. With one major difference --
the Chazon Ish's argument about the 2,000 years of Torah cutting the
line between tannaim and amora'im would make this statement about R'
Chiyya much more of a chiddush than the convention that divides rishonim
and acharonim.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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