[Avodah] Rabbi Chiyya Ruba

[Joshua Meisner]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 04:35:56PM -0500, Joshua Meisner wrote:
> : Unless one places R' Chiyya in the shnei alafim Torah, and draws the line
> : between tannaim and amoraim after him.
>
> Which one could do, but only as a variant on the CI's shitah. He defines
> the end as the writing of the mishnah.
>

Though R' Chiyya is not mentioned in the Mishnah, he was very likely active
within that dor, which explicitly includes his contemporary R' Gamliel bno
shel R' Yehudah haNasi (Avos 2:2), so that even if the dividing line is
chasimas ha-mishnah, R' Chiyya could still be placed on the earlier side.

- Joshua
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