רב אושעיא

Rab Aushaya and Rab Chanina were sitting in the marketplace of Znot in Eretz Yisrael and they were engaged in conversation, and they made for themselves sandals but did not look at them, [(Pesachim (113b) and in Yichusin it is written in the first chapter of Kiddushin and I did not find it)] and in Sanhedrin [(67b)] they dealt with all the matters of Shabbat in the Book of Creation and they constructed for themselves a three-legged calf [(see Rashi, Parashat HaDerech, 63a). In the first chapter of Sanhedrin (14), Rabbi Yochanan wanted to ordain them, (and in Yichusin it is written that Rabbi Huna and Rabbi Aushaya had another version that came to him) but it was not successful because they were descendants of Eli.

And it is written there in the Chiddushei Aggadot that we read Rab Aushaya and Rab Chanina and not Rabbi. And they were brothers of Rabba (there). In Ketubot (111b) they sent the halacha according to Rabbi Yehuda regarding separations. And it is written in Yichusin in the name of Rabbi Chananel that because they came from the house of Eli, they sent it this way that the halacha is according to Rabbi Yehuda that we do not concern ourselves with the seed of the father, and it is not so that Rabbi Chanina said this, for rather Rabbi Yehuda was in doubt and the Rabbis hold that we do not concern ourselves as Rashi stated, and it is so in the chapter of Ohalot, (Maharit there).

In the Jerusalem Talmud, in the chapter of the Uncircumcised, halacha 3, Rabbi Yisa says that in the future, the Holy One, Blessed be He, will not be concerned except for the tribe of Levi, as it is written, "And He purified the sons of Levi," said Rab Aushaya because we are Levites we will be lost. Rab Chanina and Rab Aushaya were sitting at the gates of Jerusalem, and that elder taught them in the house of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, Makkot (19b).

And what is written in the Gemara, "What is it?" is a typographical error, and it seems so in Rashi, and it is also in the Yalkut in Parashat Re'eh, and in the new Shas they did not correct it.