For another Jewish Amora

Amora

Amoraim , were renowned Jewish scholars who "said" or "told over" the teachings of the Oral law, from about 200 to 500 CE in Babylonia and the Land of Israel. Their legal discussions and debates were eventually codified in the Gemara...

 sage also of the Land of Israel

Land of Israel

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, same 3d Amoraic generetion & with a similar name, see Hanina b. Papi

Hanina b. Papi

For another Jewish Amora sage also of the Land of Israel, same 3d Amoraic generetion & with a similar name, see Hanina ben Pappa.For the Babylonian Amora sages of the 5th generetion, see Rav Papi or Rav Papa.Hanina b...

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For the Babylon

Babylon

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ian Amora

Amora

Amoraim , were renowned Jewish scholars who "said" or "told over" the teachings of the Oral law, from about 200 to 500 CE in Babylonia and the Land of Israel. Their legal discussions and debates were eventually codified in the Gemara...

 sages of the 5th generetion, see Rav Papi

Rav Papi

For the Amora sages of the Land of Israel,of the 3d Amoraic generetion, see Hanina b. Papi or Hanina ben Pappa.For another Babylonian Amora sage of the 5th Amoraic generetion, see Rav Papa....

 or Rav Papa

Rav Papa

For the Amora sages of the Land of Israel,of the 3d Amoraic generetion, see Hanina b. Papi or Hanina ben Pappa.For another Babylonian Amora sage of the 5th Amoraic generetion, see Rav Papi....

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Hanina ben Pappa was a Jewish Talmud

Talmud

The Talmud is a central text of mainstream Judaism. It takes the form of a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, philosophy, customs and history....

ist, known as an amora

Amora

Amoraim , were renowned Jewish scholars who "said" or "told over" the teachings of the Oral law, from about 200 to 500 CE in Babylonia and the Land of Israel. Their legal discussions and debates were eventually codified in the Gemara...

 living in the Land of Israel

Land of Israel

The Land of Israel is the Biblical name for the territory roughly corresponding to the area encompassed by the Southern Levant, also known as Canaan and Palestine, Promised Land and Holy Land. The belief that the area is a God-given homeland of the Jewish people is based on the narrative of the...

, halakist, and haggadist who flourished in the 3rd and 4th centuries; a younger contemporary of Samuel b. Naḥman (Yer. Sheb. v. 36a). His name is variously written "Ḥanina", "Hananiah", and "Ḥinena" (comp. Yer. Ber.

Berakhot (Talmud)

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 i. 4b; Yer. M. Ḳ. iii. 83c; Cant. R. i. 2; Yalḳ., Cant. i. 2). That he possessed great stores of learning is shown by the frequency with which he is cited in both Talmud

Talmud

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 and Midrash

Midrash

The Hebrew term Midrash is a homiletic method of biblical exegesis. The term also refers to the whole compilation of homiletic teachings on the Bible....

, and he enjoyed the companionship of the foremost teachers of his generation. With Simon (Shimeon) b. Pazzi he discussed exegetics, and he was associated with Abbahu

Abbahu

Abbahu was a Jewish Talmudist, known as an amora, who lived in the Land of Israel, of the 3rd amoraic generation , sometimes cited as R. Abbahu of Caesarea . His rabbinic education was acquired mainly at Tiberias, in the academy presided over by R. Johanan, with whom his relations were almost...

 and Isaac Nappaḥa on the judiciary (Giṭ. 29b; B. Ḳ. 117b). Legend has surrounded his name with supernatural incidents.

Legends about him

Hanina was very charitable, and distributed his gifts at night so as not to expose the recipients to shame. But as the night is assigned to the evil spirits, his procedure displeased the latter. Once the chief of the spirits met him and asked, "Do you not teach the Biblical inhibition, 'Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark'? Why then do you invade my province?" Ḥanina answered, "Does not the Bible also teach, 'A gift in secret pacifieth anger'?" thus reminding the spirit that no evil could befall him. On hearing this the spirit became disheartened and fled (Deut. xix. 14; Prov. xxi. 14; Yer. Peah viii. 21b ["Hananiah"]; Yer. Sheḳ. v. 49b ["Ḥinena"]). Once Ḥanina was tempted by a matron

Matron

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, but at his word his body became repulsive with sores; when, by the aid of witchcraft, the temptress removed them, he ran away and hid in a haunted bath-house

Public bathing

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. There he spent the night, and escaped at daybreak (Ḳid. 39b, 81a).

Hanina is reputed to have been providentially guarded against errors of judgment. On one occasion he made a mistake in connection with a mourning, and in the succeeding night was corrected by a dream in which he heard the message, "Thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the Lord" (I Kings

Books of Kings

The Book of Kings presents a narrative history of ancient Israel and Judah from the death of David to the release of his successor Jehoiachin from imprisonment in Babylon, a period of some 400 years...

 xiii. 21; Yer. M. Ḳ. iii. 83a). In his public lectures Ḥanina frequently illustrated God's wisdom as manifested in nature (Ḥul. 60a; Niddah

Niddah

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 31a), and expressed many eschatological

Jewish eschatology

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 thoughts. Starting with Isa. xliii. 9 ("Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified"), he delivered the following homily, perhaps the longest and most connected of all haggadot:(Ab. Zarah 2a et seq.).

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Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

• Bacher, Ag. Pal. Amor. ii. 513 et seq.;
• Heilprin, Seder ha-Dorot, ii.