RABBAH B. ḤIYYA OF CTESIPHON:

By: Wilhelm Bacher, Jacob Zallel Lauterbach

Babylonian amora of the second generation. He is said to have performed the ceremony of ḥaliẓah in a manner which was considered allowable only by one tanna, the majority disapproving. For this he was censured by R. Samuel (Yeb. 704a).

W. B. J. Z. L.