Capitolo 21
arrogant in the pride of knowledge! Once the lecture of Abbahu was besieged by a
great crowd, but colleague Chiya's public was scarce. "Thy
"to teach", Abbahu told Chiya is a rare jewel of what only a
expert can judge; mine is tinsel that attracts every ignorant eye."
However it was Rab that was the true popularizer of the Jewish culture. Him
courses systematized of lectures for the people as for studious.
The successor of Rab as head of the school of Sura, Huna (212-297), it completed
The job of Rab in to make of Babylon the principal centre of the Jewish culture. Huna
his/her own fields cultivated for a way of living, and it would be often satisfied house of going
with his/her spade on his/her shoulder. It was men as this on that he/she built the
Jewish tradition. However, the predecessor of Huna had the widest experience of
life, for Rab a student had been in Palestine, and you/he/she was in contact with the
Hebrews of a lot of parts. From the onwards of the time of Rab, learning became, the
ownership of the whole people and the Talmud, besides the being the
the literature of the Jewish universities, can have called the book of the
masses. It contains, not only the legal ones and ethical results of the
the scholar's investigations, but also the wisdom and the superstition of
the masses. The Talmud precisely is not a national literature, but it was
an unique obligation among the shed Hebrews, a spiritual unparallelled and
literary tool to maintain the identity of the Judaism among the
a lot of tribulations to which the Hebrews were submitted.
The Talmud you owe a lot to a lot of minds. Externally you/he/she was influenced by the
nations with which the Hebrews came into contact. From the inside, the
the influences to job were equally various. Jochanan, Rab and Sam in
the third century prepared out the material of what the Talmud was
he/she finally built. The actual building was served as researchers in the quarter
century. Rabba, the child of Nachmani (270-330), Abayi (280-338), and Rava
(299-352) it gave the touches finishing to the method of the Talmud. Rabba