RICHARD RHEINS

44. Deuteronomy 18.3. 45. B. Hullin 13b; cf. B. Yoma 18a, and B. Horayot 9a. 46. J.T. Hagigah 1.7.

47. See Lee I. Levine , The Rabbinic Class of Roman Palestine in Late Antiquity, pp. 69-71.

48. B. Yoma 72b.

49. B. Shabbat 114a. Rashi states that this requirement includes even the difficult tractate Kallah.

50. Judah David Eisenstein ,"Rabbi, ” The Jewish Encyclopedia , pp. 294-295, Vol. X, pp 294-295.

51. See Ephraim Urbach , The Sages, London , 1987, pp. 601-608.*...The problem of the livelihood of the Sages in the framework of the question of studying Torah and practicing a craft did not cease troubling, complicating, and confusing the circles of the Sages”(p. 608).

52. B. Berakhot 35b.

53. Hillel lived during the last century B.C.E., and Rabbi Tarfon was a third generation Tanna(early second century of the Common Era).

54. Rab Judah was the second generation Amora(3-4 century C.E.) and Raba was a third generation Amora(4th century C.E.).