Rabbi Abba

Rabbi Abba was an amora of Talmudic [academies in Babylonia|Babylonian] birth who lived in the third and fourth centuries.
He was a pupil of Rabbis Huna and Judah bar Ezekiel, the Babylonian masters, and settled in the Land of Israel, where he achieved a high reputation. In the Babylonian schools, Rabbi Abba is always meant when reference is made to "our teacher in the land of Israel". He was wealthy and had a peculiar method of dispensing charity in secret. He is important as a halakhist. As an aggadist, he selected chiefly Psalm verses for his texts.