FBI officials grabbed him at ווסיקין .... And now he will sing and bring down all the guy with the keys and lights ........
| Harav Avraham Yitzchok Kook z"l |
Tazria: Rabbi Abba Arrives in Babylonia
Babylon did not become the center of world Jewry overnight. But a defining moment in the gradual relocation of Jewish leadership from Eretz Yisrael to Babylonia may be pinpointed to a particular event: the arrival of Rabbi Abba Aricha on the shores of Babylonia in 219 CE.
Rabbi Abba was the preeminent scholar of his generation. He was known to all by the simple appellation ‘Rav’ - the Rabbi. With Rav’s arrival and the establishment of his famed yeshiva in Sura, Babylonia emerged as the true center of Torah scholarship (see Gittin 6a, Ketubot 111a).







