An important man/ a great man
A great and honored man.
("Straightforward is the carcass in the market, and he weighs silver coins, and do not say 'I am a priest,' but I am a great man, and there is no fault in my word' (to strip a carcass in the market and receive money, and do not say: I am a priest, and I am a great man and disdainful over the matter)" - Pesaḥim 114a, and also: "The head of the congregation, Rav Shmuel Abba / He is righteous in his generation / There is none like him, a great man / Until forever his light shines" - Shalom Aleichem / We are traveling to America, 97, and also: "And a great man stood on his strength, for the strength of a friend does not remove from under his hand a matter that is not rectified" - H. HaZaz / Dorot HaRishonim, 78, and also: "All arise... and open with a special piyyut in his honor: Unique, a distinguished God from the multitudes, bless the great man, who loved my soul" - Ḥayim Savato / Like the Eyelids of Dawn, 30)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
גַּבְרָא רַבָּא
Definition (Hebrew)
אָדָם גָּדוֹל וּמְכֻבָּד.
("פְּשׁוֹט נְבֵלְתָּא בְּשׁוּקָא וּשְׁקֵל אַגְרָא, וְלָא תֵּימָא כָּהֲנָא אֲנָא, וְגַבְרָא רַבָּא אָנָּא, וּסְנַיא בִּי מִלְּתָא (תַּפְשִׁיט נְבֵלָה בַּשּׁוּק וְקַבֵּל כֶּסֶף, וְלֹא תֹּאמַר:כֹּהֵן אֲנִי, וְאָדָם גָּדוֹל אֲנִי וּמָאוּס עֲלֵי הַדָּבָר)"- פְּסָחִים קיג ע"א, וְכֵן:"רֹאשׁ הַקָּהָל רַב שְׁמוּאֵל אַבָּא/ צַדִּיק הוּא בְּדוֹרוֹ/ אֵין כָּמוֹהוּ גַּבְרָא רַבָּא/ עַד נֵצַח יָהֵל אוֹרוֹ"- שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם/ אָנוּ נוֹסְעִים לְאָמֵרִיקָה, צט, וְכֵן:"וְהָעֳמַד גַּבְרָא רַבָּא עַל חֶזְקָתוֹ, כִּי חֲזָקָה-חָבֵר אֵין מוֹצִיא מִתַּחַת יָדוֹ דָּבָר שֶׁאֵינוֹ מְתֻקָּן"- ח.הָזָז/ דּוֹרוֹת הָרִאשׁוֹנִים, 78, וְכֵן:"הַכֹּל קָמִים...וּפוֹתְחִים בְּפִיּוּט מְיֻחָד לִכְבוֹדוֹ: יָחִיד, אַ-ל דָּגוּל מֵרְבָבָה, יְבָרֵךְ לְגַבְרָא רַבָּא, אֲשֶׁר אֶת נַפְשִׁי אָהֲבָה"- חַיִּים סָבָתוֹ/ כְּעַפְעַפֵּי שַׁחַר, 30)