Ulla bar Ishmael
Ulla bar Ismael (also Ulla bar Ismael , in the Babylonian Talmud Ulla without naming a father) was a highly respected Amora of the third generation in Babylonia and lived and worked at the end of the third / beginning of the fourth century AD.
He moved from Palestine to Babylonia, where he was in close contact with R. Juda in Pumbedita and R. Nachman bar Jakob in Mahuza , but returned repeatedly to visit his homeland.
Ulla died in Babylonia but was transferred to Palestine.
He is one of the Cupids most frequently mentioned in the Gemara .
In Haggadic sayings, among other things, it is handed down from him: "Since the destruction of the sanctuary, God has only had the four cubits of the Halacha ."
literature
- Zacharias Frankel , Introduction to the Jerusalem Talmud , Breslau 1870
- Aaron Hyman , Toldoth Tannaim we-Amoraim , London 1910
- Johann Krengel, article ULLA bar ISMAEL , in: Jüdisches Lexikon , Berlin 1927, Vol. IV / 2
- Hermann L. Strack and Günter Stemberger : Introduction to Talmud and Midrash . 7th edition, Beck, Munich 1982
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ulla bar Ishmael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cupid |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century |