ר' אבא בר כהנא

Rabbi Abba bar Kahana and Rabbi Chiya bar Ashi in the name of Rav [(as per the opinion of some, (Yerushalmi R"p Keitzad Mevarchin in the name of Rabbi Elazar and in Tanchuma Parashat Re'eh Rabbi Iba bar Kahana, perhaps they are one)]. Rabbi Abba bar Kahana said once, etc., Rabbi said, etc. Rabbi Abba bar Kahana said, Rabbi Chanina said, etc. Rabbi Zeira said to him, etc.

A great teaching [(Shabbat 121b, 122a, see above regarding Abba bar Ilai), "And they shall be chastised for the judgment of HaShem, He will teach us," Rabbi Abba bar Kahana said, thus it is stated in Yalkut Yeshayahu 28, and it is similar in Rashi's commentary (Kiddushin 105a) and in the Gemara and in the Ba'al HaTurim, there is a typo, and in Shas it was not corrected. Rabbi Avin, his father, in his name, in the name of Rabbi Elazar, and Rabbi Asi, his master, at the end of the opening of Eichah, in the name of Budai, Rabbi Berachia in his name, and Gamliel the couple asked, and Rabbi Gamliel bar Anina, and Rabbi Zeira in the name of Yehuda, Rabbi Chanina said (Shabbat 121b), and Rav Chisda, and Rabbi Yehoshua ben Yair in the name of Pinchas ben Yair, Rabbi Yochanan said (Parashat Ki Tavo), to Rabbi Yirmiya, Shimon Levi heard and kissed him, in the name of Matna, because of the great teaching at the opening of Eichah there, in the name of Azariah of the village of Chitah, and Rabbi Shimon bar Nershiah in the name of Rabbi Levi, in the name of Shmuel (Yalkut Shmuel II, Remez 162) and Rabbi Tanchuma]: