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?iyya bar Adda

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

Palestinian amora of the first half of the third century; son of the sister of Bar ?appara; pupil of Simeon ben La?ish. His name is connected with several halakot (Yer. Hor. 3:5), and he handed down a number of halakic opinions in the names of A?a, ?anina, and Johanan (Yer. Ber. 6:1; Sanh. ). He disputed with his uncle Bar ?appara concerning the explanation of the word (Deuteronomy 5:25), which he rendered "they embellished" (Lev. R.; Cant. R. 2:14). ?iyya died young, and in the funeral sermon pronounced by Simeon ben La?ish he is compared, in allusion to the verse, "My beloved [God] is gone down into His garden, to the bed of spices, to feed in the garden, and to gather lilies" (Cant. R. 6:2), to a lily which the gardener is desirous to gather.