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Hezekiah, son of Rabbi Hiyya חזקיה בריה דרבי חייא
in him one sees where the tannaim end and the amoraim begin
Son of Rabbi Hiyya the Great; his mother was Judith. Rabbi Yochanan bar Nappacha was not made head of the academy in his lifetime, out of respect for his teacher.
One detail is worth a whole chapter on how the law was read: he read the Megillah both on the fourteenth of Adar and on the fifteenth, because it was unclear whether Tiberias had been walled since the days of Joshua. The doubt was not resolved by a stretch—it was kept twice over. His colleagues were Rabbi Yannai, Bar Kappara and Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi.
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Chazal: Mishnah, Talmud, midrash, Zohar
- Megillah 5b — the reading of the Megillah on both days because of the doubt about the walls of Tiberias
Scholarship
- The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) — the kinship, the students and the standing between tannaim and amoraim
Basis: Talmud and midrash.