Sama bar Raqta

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Sama bar Raqta was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora of the sixth generation. He was a contemporary of Ravina I, with whom he disputed concerning a halakhah (Kid. 9a), and to whom he communicated a saying of Rab Awia (B. M. 10b, the correct reading in Rabbinowitz). He is probably identical with the Rav Sama who with Ravina sat before Rav Ashi (Men. 42a).

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This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia article "Sama B. Rakta" by Wilhelm Bacher & Jacob Zallel Lauterbach, a publication now in the public domain.