Dimi (also called Abdimi and Abudimi) is the name of several Amoraim, mostly of Babylonian origin. Dimi Amora of the fourth century who often carried Palestinian doctrinal and exegetical remarks to the Babylonian schools, and Babylonian teachings to Palestine (see Abdima Naḥota). In consequence of a decree of banishment issued by Constantius II against the teachers of Judaism in Palestine, he finally settled in Babylonia. Dimi was a perfect storehouse of diversified knowledge, which he diligently gathered and as freely disseminated; and he made the transmission of the teachings of his most prominent Palestinian predecessors his special mission. He reported in the names of Jannai, Hanina, Joshua ben Levi, Shimon ben Lakish, Isaac, Eleazar, and, most frequently, R. Johanan; and almost as often he reported Palestinian observations with merely the introductory formula ("They say in the West"). Abaye was the most appreciative recipient of Dimi's information, which ranged along the lines of the halakhah and the aggadah, occasionally touching also physical geography, history, and ethics. When Abaye once inquired of him, "What do the Westerners [Palestinians] most strenuously avoid in their social intercourse?" Dimi replied, "Putting a neighbor to shame; for R. Ḥanina counts this sin among the three unpardonable ones". Dimi was also opposed to the bestowal of excessive praise, and thus illustrated the Biblical proverb (Proverbs 27:14), "He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him." Usually Dimi communicated his knowledge personally; but where circumstances required it, he did so by messages. Thus, when on one occasion, having himself reported in Pumbedita a halakhah as construed by R. Johanan, he discovered on his arrival at Nehardea that he had been mistaken, he sent word to the misinformed, candidly confessing, "What I have told you is founded on an error". Dimi Babylonian scholar of the fourth century; brother of Rav Safra. According to the testimony of his contemporary, R. Abba, Dimi was not endowed with worldly goods, but was blessed with a clear conscience. In his last hours he was visited by his learned brother, to whom he remarked, "May it come home to me ("I deserve God's mercy") because I have observed all the rules prescribed by the Rabbis". When asked, "Did you also refrain from sounding your neighbor's praises, for in continually talking of one's virtues, a man incidentally refers to his vices?" he