Ammi b. Abba

Rammi bar Abba [1] (= an abbreviation of R. Ammi bar Abba[2][3]), or Rammi bar Abba I,[4] was a third generation Amora sage of Babylonia.

He cites the teachings of Rav Huna, who was probably his teacher. He had many aggadic teachings.[5]

He transmitted to his generation many enactments of R. Jose ben Halafta in Sepphoris, among them:

  • A woman shall not walk in the street while her son is behind her, owing to an incident that once happened, when immoral men kidnapped a child which was following his mother, and she was searching for him, then they lured her into a house, telling her he was there, and there assaulted her.[6]
  • Women while in the closet should talk to one another for the sake of privacy from the intrusion of men,[6] which is illegal due to the prohibition of Yichud.
  1. ^ Sanhedrin 19a
  2. ^ Nedarim, 32a
  3. ^ Tannaim and Amoraim, jewishencyclopedia.com; List (Ammi b. Abba (B))
  4. ^ Aaron Hyman, Toledot tannaʿim ve-amoraʾim, III, p. 1100
  5. ^ Babylonian Talmud, Nedarim 32a
  6. ^ a b Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, 19a

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