More Discussions for this daf
1. Breaking Bread, Amen Chatufah 2. Terumah mi'd'Rabanan 3. D'Oraisa Docheh d'Rabanan
4. Counting a Baby for Zimun 5. How could a Rav be an Am ha'Aretz? 6. Mitzvah ha'Ba'ah b'Aveirah
7. Would Rav and Shmuel really want dessert 8. Rebbi Yehoshua ben Levi's status? 9. Ma'aser Sheni, Terumah ...
10. Sifra d'Vei Rav 11. Counting a Katan in a Minyan 12. D'Oraysa Docheh D'Rabanan
DAF DISCUSSIONS - BERACHOS 47

TED MARCUS asks:

Who was RYB'L's rebbe?

Tuvya Marcus

The Kollel replies:

Rebbi Elazar ha'Kapar (Avodah Zarah 43a; see also Ta'anis 26b), and Rebbi Yehudah ben Pediyah (Midrash Tanchuma, Vaera 2). He also learned from Rebbi (Shabbos 46a).

Yisroel Shaw

TED MARCUS asks:

So why does Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi not have the same "tana v'palig" status as Rav? (The Gemara attempts to refute his statement from a Beraisa, in our Sugya, and in general we never find that he is considered a tana v'palig.)

Tuvya Marcus

The Kollel replies:

Shmuel too, was a Talmid of Rebbi, and so did R. Yochanan, yet they are not considered Tana'im. It seems that Rav was greater than them and attained the status of Tana, even though they did not.

The Seider ha'Doros discusses all these points at considerable length, and it is worth taking a look at his extensive notes on all the Tana'im and Amora'im, which he deals with in alphabetical order. With regards to R. Yehoshua ben Levi, he cites Rashi in Nidah, who defines him as an Amora, and the Rambam, who refers to him as a Tana (interestingly, his name appears in a Beraisa in the last Perek of Pirkei Avos).

Incidentally, on numerous occasions, the Gemara asks on Rav from a Mishnah or Beraisa, without answering 'Rav Tana Hu u'Palig'. Apparently, it only does so when its back is to the wall, and it has no other way of answering the Kashya.

be'Virchas Kol Tuv

Eliezer Chrysler.