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Ḥiyya bar Adda
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or Palestinian amora of the first half of the third century; son of the sister of Bar Ḳappara; pupil of Simeon ben Laḳish. His name is connected with several halakot (Yer. Hor. 3:5), and he handed down a number of halakic opinions in the names of Aḥa, Ḥanina, and Johanan (Yer. Ber. 6:1; Sanh. ). He disputed with his uncle Bar Ḳappara concerning the explanation of the word 
(Deuteronomy 5:25), which he rendered "they embellished" (Lev. R.; Cant. R. 2:14). Ḥiyya died young, and in the funeral sermon pronounced by Simeon ben Laḳish 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.
- Heilprin, Seder ha-Dorot, 2:132;
- Bacher, Ag. Pal. Amor. 1:341,401.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Ḥiyya bar Adda'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/i/iyya-bar-adda.html. 1901.
