Bar Dala, Bardala, Bar Dalia, Bardalia:

By: Marcus Jastrow , S. Mendelsohn

A place near Lydda, which once harbored a rabbinic seat of learning (B. M. 10 a et seq. ; see Rabbinowicz, "Diḳduḳe Soferim," ad loc. ; Beẓah 14 a , see Rabbinowicz, ib. ; Yer. 'Er. vi. 24 a ; Yer. Kil. i. 27 a ; Yer. Sheb. ii. 33 d ). It is supposed to be identical with Bet-Deli ('Eduy. viii. 5; Yeb. xvi. 7, in Yer. Mish. and Gemara 16 a , "Badla"), which is recognized by some in Wady Ed-Dalia, between Tibnin and Safed in Galilee; by others, in Bet-Ulia (Dulia) on the road from Hebron to Jaffa. As the place was not far from Lydda—so that a Bardalian was sometimes considered as a Lyddan (Yer. Sanh. i. 18 c )—the latter conjecture is the more probable. The local name is used in rabbinical literature as a surname, designating several scholars who hailed from that place ( Abba Cohen of Bardala , Aḥa Bardala ), and is occasionally employed as a prænomen; e.g. , Bardala b. Ṭabyome (Ḥag. 5 a ; see also Zeb. 33 b ).