Rava as Mara de-Atra in Mahoza

This is an article from Hakirah vol. 11.
We tend to talk in collectives: our Sages, blessed be their memory, the nevi’im, the Tannaim, the Amoraim, the Rishonim and Aharonim, but on another level we are—or should be—aware that each one of our Sages was himself a treasure-house of Torah, and had shittot and darkei limmud of his own, some of which he had in common with other members of his yeshiva or beit midrash. We are also aware of the fact that our Sages’ words were spoken with great prec…