Rabbi Yirmeyah
260 CE–335 CE · Amoraim · Tiberias
Rabbi Yirmeyah was a third-generation Amora of the Land of Israel, active primarily in Tiberias during the early fourth century. Though born in Babylonia, he became a prominent scholar in the Palestinian academies and was known for his sharp dialectical mind and his willingness to challenge established positions. He studied under the luminaries of his generation and engaged in rigorous halachic debates with his contemporaries. Yirmeyah is remembered in the Talmud for his incisive questions and interpretations of earlier teachings, and his name appears frequently in discussions of both halachah and aggadah in the Yerushalmi.
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TiberiasLand of Israel
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Tiberias in this era
Under Roman rule—first the Severan emperors and later the Tetrarchic system that divided imperial authority—Tiberias remained a center of Jewish learning and communal life despite Christian ascendancy in the broader empire. The city's rabbinical academy flourished as a place where the oral traditions of the Mishnah were debated, interpreted, and eventually compiled into the Jerusalem Talmud, a monumental work that would shape Jewish practice for centuries. While Christian emperors like Constantine (who rose to power in 312) began transforming the empire's religious landscape, Tiberias's Jewish scholars continued their intensive hermeneutical work, establishing the city as a seat of halakhic authority. Rabbi Yirmeyah, active in this period, was part of this remarkable intellectual enterprise, contributing to the interpretive conversations that would crystallize Jewish law even as the political world around them shifted toward Christian dominance.
About Tiberias
Galilee center; home of Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk and his Hasidic disciples after aliyah.
In Tiberias at the same time
Anonymous (Sefer Yetzirah), Anonymous Merkavah mystics, R. Yochanan, Reish Lakish, R. Eleazar, Yose bar Chanina
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Rabbi Yirmeyah’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Anonymous (Sefer Yetzirah), Anonymous Merkavah mystics, R. Yochanan, Reish Lakish, R. Eleazar, Yose bar Chanina, Shimon bar Abba, Rabbi Ami, Shmuel bar Nachmani, Ulla, Rabbi Assi, Chiyya bar Abba, Yitzchak Nappacha, Rabbi Helbo, Rav Safra, Yehuda Nesia II, Rabbi Zeira, Rabbi Levi
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Rabbi Yirmeyah’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- Chisda bar Atta (head of Sura)· 217 CE–309 CE
- Nachman bar Yaakov (son-in-law of Resh Galuta)· 230 CE–320 CE
- Rav Hamnuna· 230 CE–300 CE
- Abbahu of Caesarea· 240 CE–320 CE
- Rabbah bar Rav Huna· 245 CE–322 CE
- Yonah (Yerushalmi)· 260 CE–330 CE
- Yose (Yerushalmi-era)· 260 CE–330 CE
- Shimon bar Pazi· 260 CE–330 CE
- Rabbah bar Nachmani (Akar Harim)· 270 CE–330 CE
- Rav Yosef bar Chiyya (Sinai)· 270 CE–333 CE
- Rabbah bar Bar Chana (the traveler)· 270 CE–340 CE
- Chaggai· 270 CE–340 CE
- Bar Hedya (dream interpreter of Berakhot 55-56)· 270 CE–340 CE
- Abaye· 280 CE–338 CE
- Adda bar Ahava (II)· 280 CE–350 CE
- Yudan· 280 CE–350 CE
- Tachlifa bar Avdimi· 280 CE–350 CE
- Rava bar Yosef bar Chama· 280 CE–352 CE
- Acha of Lod· 280 CE–360 CE
- Nachman bar Yitzchak· 290 CE–356 CE
- Idi bar Avin· 290 CE–360 CE
- Rami bar Chama· 290 CE–360 CE
- Mana (II)· 290 CE–360 CE
- Acha bar Yaakov· 290 CE–370 CE
Christian world
Graeco-Roman world
Scientists
Works
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