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In the Jerusalem Talmud he is also called Ḥiyya bar Ba or Ḥiyya bar Wa ( Yer.

Berakhot iii. 6a, iv. 7d ); and in both Talmuds he is frequently mentioned merely as R. Ḥiyya, the context showing that Hiyya bar Abba is meant.

Though a native of Babylon, where, perhaps, for a very short time he came under the influence of Samuel of Nehardea ( Weiss, " Dor ," iii. 94 ), he migrated to Palestine at a very early age.

There he studied under Ḥanina and Joshua ben Levi, and came into very close contact with Simeon bar Laḳish.

He is, moreover, known as a disciple of Rabbi Johanan, after whose death he and his friends Ammi and Assi were the recognized authorities on the Halakah in Palestine.