[Avodah] Fwd: R chiya raba

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:40:21PM +0200, Eli Turkel wrote:
:> But still, my point remains that the CI really speaks of dates of
:> decisions, not people.
: 
: again R. Chiya dies before Rebbe. We have no way of knowing when the Mishna
: was finished in Rebbe's lifetime (if indeed there was an official finishing -
: some parts seem to be written after his death). So it would seem that
: almost all of R. Chiya's words are before the finish of the Mishna.

If this were so, he would be a tanna, not an exceptional amora. Most of his
words must have been after the misnhah

...
: I find it hard to imagine that there was a ceremony on RH of year 2000 and a
: decision
: that we no longer disagree iwth previous generations while last month we
: did.

I'm not asking based on what you or I find more reasonable or imaginable.
I'm asking about how the CI understand it.

One coudl rephrase the problem underlying my question about R' Chiya as
the fact that I can't imagine this either, and yet the CI says it. So,
I want to understand what the CI means, and how it allows for throwbacks
like R' Chiyya or Rav.

: Of course all this assumes that there are no missing years in the calendar
: over the Persian rule of 54 years(?)

I don't think it has to, because the CI isn't claiming the 2000 years
is precisely from 2000 AM to 4000 AM.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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