Jochanan bar nappacha

Jochanan ([ God is gracious , graced: Johannes], R. Jochanan bar (or: ben) Nappacha ( the blacksmith ), usually simply Rabbi Jochanan; * around 180 in Sepphoris ; † around 279 ) was a second generation Palestinian Amora .

He worked in Galilee, created (according to Maimonides ) with his school the basis of the Talmud Jeruschalmi (Pal. Talmud). His teachers were especially Jannai, Hoschaja and Chanina ben Chama and possibly also Jehuda ha-Nasi . Simeon b stands out among his contemporaries. Laqish forth; his contemporary was also Rab Jehuda bar Jechezqel (Pes 118a). Jochanan initially taught in his native city of Sepphoris, and later in Tiberias in the school he founded. He is said to have been the head of the school ( malakh ) for 80 years before he (allegedly) died in 279.

His students included Abbahu , Ammi , Assi II. , Eleasar ben Pedat , Jose ben Chanina, Chijja II. And Simeon ben Abba. His disputations with his brother-in-law Resch Laqisch in Tiberias have become decisive for the Talmudic dialectic ( Pilpul ).

Jochanan is also known for his high regard for the Tannaite sources; for his halachic comments he used both the Mishnah and Baraitot . Jochanan developed the following views: With three exceptions, the Halacha followed the opinion of Gamaliel II ; Rabbi Yehuda's view was Rabbi Meir , and Rabbi Joses was preferable to Rabbi Yehudas; Halacha always corresponds to the anonymous Mishnah.

literature

Jacob Samuel Zuri: Rabbi Jochanan, the first Amorae of Galilee. Poppelauer, Berlin 1918.
Israel Konovitz: Ma'arakhot ha-Amoraʾim. Volume 1: Rabi Yoḥanan. Osef shalem shel maʾamaraṿ ba-Halakhah uva-Agadah. Mosad ha-Rav Ḳuḳ, Jerusalem 1973 (Hebrew).
Ronald Reuven Kimelman: Rabbi Yohanan of Tiberias. Aspects of the Social and Religious History of Third Century Palestine. Yale, New Haven CT 1977 (Yale, University, dissertation).

Individual evidence

^ Karl Bertau : Scripture - Power - Holiness in the literatures of the Judeo-Christian-Muslim Middle Ages. Edited by Sonja Glauch. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2005, ISBN 3-11-017468-5 , p. 72.

personal data
SURNAME	Jochanan bar nappacha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	R. Jochanan bar Nappacha; R. Jochanan ben Nappacha; Rabbi Jochanan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	second generation Palestinian Amorae
DATE OF BIRTH	at 180
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sepphoris
DATE OF DEATH	at 279

[1] Karl Bertau : Scripture - Power - Holiness in the literatures of the Judeo-Christian-Muslim Middle Ages. Edited by Sonja Glauch. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2005, ISBN 3-11-017468-5 , p. 72.