.
Ionia through Hama b. Uuhbali b. Abuha (Ket. I.e.). who DfviT was in I^U^slint-. Kraiikcl (McIm). p. (iUa),
hohling the two names Abbahii and Abulia to be ilii'iitical, iH'licvcs Abinii In have liccn a Babylonian, Aliiiiij Is filtcu antl a brother of Kabbah b. Abuha. mentioned as icportinir IJaraitot. Oneol these, treating of the iioniir due to parents, sjiys: "One man feeds his father on jilieasiuits and yet tires iiim of tliis worlil; wliik- another yokes liis father to the
treadmill and yet pn pares him for the enjoyments of the world to come" (Kid. :!!«). I^lsewhere this paradox is thus explained: The first case is that of one who was in the habit of furnishing his father with stulfeil birds, and who. when the father once iui|uircd, "Son. whence dost thou get all this?" re "Old man. eat and be silent as dogs do." jilii'd, The second is the case of one who was engaged in turning a millstone when his father was drafted to do pulilic service. The son exchanged places with his father, remarking that he was more able to bear the abuses incident to such service than was his aged Yer. Kid. i. tib'. compare father (Yer. Peali. i. I'lr]{jislii toBi'hli Kid. I.r.). Abimi himself was cited by Though liis own father as an cxamiile of filial piety. blessed with live learned sons, all of whom had been found worthy of ordination, he would not jiermit them to take his place in waiting on their grandOnce his father called for water to drink. father. Abimi hastened to bring it, aiul, tinding his father asleep, remained reverently standing over him imtil licawoke. It is said that Abind then an<l there conceived an ingenious explanation of he Seventy -ninth Ps;dm (see Lam. U. i>n iv. 11 Miilr. Tell. /.<•.). xVcconling to another liaraita eiti'd by Abimi. the Messianic epoch of Israel will extend over a period of si'ven tliousand years: for the Scripture says (Isa. Ixii. .I), " As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee " and as the bridal feast lasts seven days, and the Lord s day is eijual to a thousand of man's years, it follows that the bridal feast between the Lord anil Israel is to continue for seven thiui.sand years (Sanh. ildii. Rjishi .seeShab, lli)/<; Ket! 85./; Shebu, 42<(: 'Ab. <j(/ A/c.
I
Zarah,
IW:
S.
I.Iul. (V.V,)
M.
ABIMI OF HAGRONIA (possibly Agranum see
Abilene
THE JEWISH EXCYCLOPEDI.V
63
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11.
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A
liabylouian amoni of the fourth century, disciiile of I{aba b. Joseph and teacher of Hab Mordecai. the colleague of Hab Aslii. One of his aphorisms reads: "For the man whom women have slain there is no law and no judge "(B. M. 07<0 Had 'S- where a man sulTers injury tlirouirli his own weakness, lie can not invoke the protection of the law (sec Yeb. 64/.; B. M, 77*; B. B. 174/-; Mak. VM). S. M.
ABIN R. (called also Abun, Abuna, Bun, Rabin, variant formsof the sjunename of Talmudic promiscuously); Kabin isa conand appears mori> frei|Ucntly ill llie Babylonian than in the Palestinian Talmud, .l)in and H. Abun. on the contrary, occur in li till' latter more fiei|uenlly than in the former; while the' abbreviated form. Bun. is peculiar to the Pales Among the twoseore or more of tinian Talmud. anioniim cited in rabbinic literature by one or the other form of the name, the most prominent are the following: 1. . teacher of the second anioraic geiiemlion. Some of whose hidakic delivi'iances are pre.si'rved
auilinrilies
and
useil
Abiu ben Adda
the time his sou of like name was born (compare 3 below). 2. A Palestinian amora. junior contemporary of the preceding (Yer. Sliek. iv 48). He is mentioned, together Willi H. .Measha and R.Jeremiah. as carrying on a halakic controversy wilh H. Abbaliu II., R. Ilaniiia ben Papa, and U. Isaac Xappal.ia (the Smith). K. Abbaliu calls all of the opposition "youngsters"; he nevertheless manifests special regard for the intelligence of R. Abin. to whose ajiproval he rcfei's
with
ment
The same Siitisfaction (B. B. 142i). paid to Abin by R. Zeira (Niddali.
R
is
through H. Elea/.ar ben iHinniiii). Heis probably ideiilical with Habin Saba (H Abin the Elder) lif the Babylonian Talmud, who sat al the feet of Hub. and wilh the one who is s;iiil to have died about
4".?(/).
An amora
of the fourth and tiflli generations, very fieiiuintly nnntioned in both Talmuds and in contempoiaiy rabbinic literature. Born in Palestine, where he was educated under R. Jeremiah
3.
Babylonian academies could their disciple; for he frequently tniveli'd between the two countries, from each of which he conveyed halakic decisions and exegetical remarksof his predecessors and contempoOccasionally he transmitted to Babylon by raries. (Shall,
(hi'j
et
j)ii>a<iiji),
nevertheless claim
him as
letter Palestinian decisions (Ket. 4!W»; Nidilah, <iS//); but generally he delivered them orally, for he considered it one of the great distinctions of the Jewish nation that most of its laws were unwritten (Yer. Peali, ii. 17(0. But, whether written or oral, his communications were treated with great respect, the most prominent Babylonian teachers of the fourth generation. Abaye and Raba. placing more reliance upon them than upon those of other learned rivals. R. Abin knew neither of his parents: his father having died shortly before, and his mother soon after his birth (Yer. Peali. i. 15r; compare Oen. As his children died at an early age (Pes. H. Iviii.). 70/(; Hul. Ill)'/), there were no natural ties to bind him to his native cfnintrv; and when, in the reign of Constant ius. persecutions of the Jews occurred in Palestine. R. Abin. with a considerable number of scholars, deserted liis native land and settled in Babylonia (I.Iul. V/: compare Oraetz. "History of In his old a,^•e. however, he rethe Jews," ii. ")(i7). turned to Palestine, when- he died, and where R. Maiia ordered general mourning for his death (Yer.
- M. K. iii. mh. top).
The following may serve as specimens of Abin's homiletic observations: Rfferrlnst to I^s. xv. 4." He thnt swearctli to lits own Inirt. and lint." It. Aliinsays: " That is, tic wlio reduces his purse to the extent "f si'lf-deprivatlon. In order to do a (rood deed" (MIdr. Teli.(i(/(oc.). "(iii*at Is the iHiwor of the Itenevolent : lliey net-it not .seeic priiteiUon iimlei- the shadow of the wInKs ot the earth or of any heavenlv helot's. Init can take ivfupe under the .shadow of the Thus It Is wrllteii it's. x.wl. 71, lliilv oiie. hlcssed Im- He 'How excellent Is Thv lovlnir klndiifs.<. u <ok1: llicn-for>' the chllilivn of men limictlslni: It] take ivfiun- under the shadow of Thy ivliit's' " (I'lSlk. xvl. 13J<1 : coin|>are UiilU R. to II. 12). cliiiiiKi'tli
I
Bacher. an- (.'Iveii.
Hini.ior.R.vPiiv: fullei- iletalls
Pdi. .liiior.
-li;.
III.
397-ltB.
S.
traction of U. .bin,
in the Palestinian Talmud Pedal (Yer. Ta'aiiil. i. iiii-it
compli-
where
M.
eminent cabalist of r,e ABIN "V ABUN: Mans i:iliiiiii l()|oi. a descendant of R .'sinion of Le .Mans, and gnindbither of R. Simon the (Jreat. the contenipomry of R. Gershoni ben Jmlah of Metz.
An
IllliliniaiAfiiv
MIcliael.
Z
tl. p. ."kWi, Ziiii/. ./i/./.iiio. |i. :v;i.
iir ha-Hiimiiii>.
ivads -it'ioi. as does
No. ii and note als»i
t»n».ss,
tiitllUt
K.
ABIN BEN ADDA
Babylonian amora of fourth century, di.sciple of Rab Judah ben the Ezekiel and senior contemiiorary of Raba ben JoAlthough no original thinker, he served the seph. cause of both the llalakah and the llaggadah, by storing
up
in his
niiinl
.
and transmitting decisions
