Rami bar Chama רמי בר חמא

Rami (Rav Ami) bar Chama was a Babylonian Amora of the fourth generation, Rav Chisda's student and son-in-law. The Talmud sets him beside Rava as the type of instant sharpness: where Rava builds a proof, Rami resolves at a glance—and the Talmud sometimes adds that for sharpness' sake he did not test the conclusion, and Rava overturned it.

The scene with Rav Chisda's daughter (Bava Batra 12b)—"both"—became the sages' example that since the Temple's destruction prophecy is given to children. He died young; the Talmud treasures his questions as a genre of their own: "Rami bar Chama asked" means a question at the seam of two laws where both sides are right.

The sources give no years of life; the window of activity is set by generation, following Aharon Hyman's Toldot Tannaim ve-Amoraim.