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Sheshet
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “babylonian amora of the third generation and colleague of r”. Today it says “amora of the third generation of the talmudic academies in babylonia”.
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Sheshet ( Hebrew : רב ששת ) was a Babylonian amora of the third generation and colleague of R.1 Naḥman bar Jacob , with whom he had frequent arguments concerning questions of religious law. His teacher's name is not definitely known, but Sheshet was an auditor at Huna 's lectures ( Yeb. 64b; Ket. 69a).2 The name is sometimes pronounced Shishat.3
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babylonian amora of the third generation and colleague of r
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amora of the third generation of the talmudic academies in babylonia
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