Rav Chisda

Talmudic Figures

Rav Chisda studied under Rav and Rav Huna in Sura. He eventually got into a quarrel with the latter, causing him to leave and set up his own academy in the town of Kafri. After many years, they both regretted this and reconciled.

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Rav Chisda vs. Rav Huna

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The frequent and direct legal disagreements between Rav Chisda and Rav Huna offer a fascinating glimpse into the dynamic nature of Jewish law and its interpretation. This text from the Babylonian Talmud captures the spirited debates between these two prominent Amoraim on various legal issues, such as the purity required for reciting the Shema and the validity of a divorce delivered by an agent.

After Rav Chisda left Rav Huna’s academy they had frequent differences of opinion over matters of law in which each one directly contradicted the other, as for instance in the question of how pure a place must be in order that ״קריאת שמע״ may be said there, or whether one may make a hole in a barrel on the Sabbath in order to put in a tap, or concerning the problem that all foods have to be salted and whether a dish kept overnight had to have spices. On another occasion they differed concerning an important problem of life: a man had given his agent a divorce for his…

The Jewish Spiritual Heroes, Volume III; The Amoraim of Babylon and the Babylonian Talmud, Rav Chisda the Priest 12