Rav Huna [bar Natan]

Crying on verses expressing Gd's love of the Jews: Chagigah 4b

Lit candles himself for Shabbat: Shabbat 119a

What he used to eat at the "Seder" meal of Pesach Night: Pesachim 114b

Rav Huna was short: Megillah 27b

400 barrels of wine turned to vinegar, then become valuable when he corrected an oversight: Berachot 5b

Exclaimed, "By Gd [Ha'Elokim]!": Gittin 7a

Contending that he shouldn't have to pay a stealing sharecropper: Berachot 5b

Sarcastically commented, on seeing someone kill a wasp on Shabbat, "You've killed all of them now!": Shabbat 121b

He warned a woman who was mourning for one son that she shouldn't mourn too greatly, for fear of losing others, and so it happened: Moed Katan 27b

Rav Huna's Court was a much-travelled place: Bava Metzia 18b, 20b

A question Rav Huna was asked by his host's son when he went to Argiza: Zevachim 18b

The long story of his death and burial: Moed Katan 25a

According to Rabbi Abba, Rav Huna was fit for manifestation of Gd's presence, but did not receive it because he resided in Bavel: Moed Katan 25a

Rav Huna was buried next to Rabbi Chiyya, because they were both spreaders of Torah for the Jews: Moed Katan 25a

Rav Huna died suddenly, in his 80's: Moed Katan 28a

Rava said that he prayed for wisdom like Rav Huna's, and his request was granted: Moed Katan 28a

Rav Ashi reporting that Persian King Yezdegerd told Rav Huna to lower his belt [to the position in which it was worn in the Beit haMikdash], because that style would be more dignified and reflecting of a nation of priests: Zevachim 19a

Calling Rav Chisda "Chisda, Chisda!": Bava Metzia 33a

Rav Huna said of Rav Chisda, "Your name is Chisda, and your words are "Chisda'in [Beautiful/Generous]": Gittin 7a

Rav Chisda referred his Legal questions to him: Bava Metzia 7a

Rav Chisda asked Rav Huna what the status of a Rebbe was for a student who was needed by the Rebbe, instigating off a 40-year period when the two didn't speak; afterwards, they each fasted 40 days, Rav Chisda for upsetting Rav Huna and Rav Huna for Suspecting Rav Chisda of Impertinence: Bava Metzia 33a

Rav Chisda and Rabbah bar Rav Huna disagreeing with a ruling of Rav Huna's because they had not been told a reason, and Rav Huna responding, "Have you ever asked a reason and not been told it?": Succah 14b

Rav Chisda used to praise Rav Hemnuna to Rav Huna, but Rav Huna wouldn't receive him until he got married [as he was over 20?]: Kiddushin 29b

Rav Chisda asking on an apparent self-contradiction in Rav's statements, after Rav Huna died: Menachot 42a

A question Rav Chisda asked regarding a law, when Rav Huna died: Eruvin 38b

Rav Yosef would periodically test Rav Chisda to see whether he would answer a simple legal question during Rav Huna's lifetime, and Rav Chisda would not do it: Eruvin 62b

Rav Chisda would rule on law in Kafri, which was not Rav Huna's town: Eruvin 62b-63a

Rav Huna reported a lesson in the name of Rabbi Yochanan, to which Rav Chisda replied, "By Gd! Even if Rabbi Yochanan himself would say this, I would not listen to him!": Berachot 24b

Rav Huna was given the first Ascension to the Torah: Megillah 22a

Rav Huna's Rebbe was Rav: Shabbat 128a

Rav Huna told Rav Chanan bar Rava, "Don't disagree with me; Rav went to Damharya and practiced as I have said." According to Rav Chanan bar Rava, Rav performed a stringent practice in Damharia because the local people were lax in their Mitzvah observance, and he sought to distance them from sin: Eruvin 6a

Called Rav "Abba": Pesachim 107a

Rav blessed Rav Huna for his self-sacrifice in fulfilling the mitzvah of sanctification of Shabbat [Kiddush]; when the blessing came true at the wedding of Rabbah, Rav's son, Rav scolded Rav Huna for not responding to the blessing, "And to Master, too": Megillah 27b

Rabbah reporting questions they asked when they learned in Rav Huna's Study Hall: Eruvin 40a-41a

Rav gave Rav Huna judicial license: Sanhedrin 5a

Rav instructing Rav Huna in a way to set up a shelter on Shabbat for Rav Huna's rams: Eruvin 102a

Rav Huna was sitting before Rav, and he questioned a practice of Rav's. Rav exclaimed, "This rabbi is like one who has never learned anything!": Eruvin 15a

Rav Huna once tore expensive clothing in front of his son, Rabbah, [in a way which could be repaired, although Rabbah was unaware], to test whether Rabbah would get angry: Kiddushin 32a

Gave judicial license to his son, Rabbah bar Rav Huna: Sanhedrin 5a

Accused by Rav Nachman of claiming that a personal ruling was unanimous: Ketuvot 19a

Being called "Huna Chavrin [Our friend]" by Rav Nachman: Bava Metzia 15a; Niddah 16a

Rav Anan sent a message to Rav Huna, calling him "our friend Huna הונא חברין"; Rav Huna was upset, and he sent a response with Rav Sheshet calling him "Anan" without an honourific and with implicit insult. Rav Anan complained to Mar Ukva - who justified Rav Huna's reaction: Ketuvot 69a

Rav Nachman called Rav Huna, "Huna": Eruvin 42b; Ketuvot 68b; Bava Metzia 70b

Rav Chisda used to praise Rav Hemnuna to Rav Huna, but Rav Huna wouldn't receive him until he got married [as he was over 20?]: Kiddushin 29b

Called "Izi" - My Friend - by Rami Bar Yechezkel: Shabbat 138b

Responding to a question uncertainly, sometimes "Yes" and sometimes "No": Bava Metzia 14b

Rabbi Yirmiyah dozing off before his students, Rav Huna and Rav Yitzchak bar Yosef; then waking and calling them "Children!" correcting a statement of theirs from when he was "asleep": Gittin 11b

Rav Huna challenged the attribution of a statement by Rav Yosef, angering him to the point where Rav Yosef turned his face away: Succah 11a

Rav Yosef reciting something he had learned, in front of Rav Huna: Eruvin 7a

Rabbi Abba reporting an anecdote about Rav Huna: Nedarim 7b

Rav Ami and Rav Asi, the two [most] important Kohanim of Israel, were subject to him: Megillah 22a

Rav Huna wouldn't allow Rav Chanah bar Chanilai to carry a shovel for him, before determining that Rav Chana ordinarily carried shovels: Megillah 28a

Rami bar Shemuel and Rav Yitzchak beraih deRav Yehudah, learning in the school of Rav Huna when overheard by Rav Huna's son, Rabbah bar Rav Huna: Niddah 17b

Rav Huna presenting a kal vachomer to deduce a law in order to sharpen his students' minds by challenging it, or in order to inspire his students to be creative, even though the kal vachomer was flawed and the law had actually been learned from a tradition: Zevachim 12b-13a

Set of Statements, mostly on prayer, quoted by Rabbi Chelbo: Berachot 6b

Set of Statements related to prayer and bathrooms: Berachot 24b-25a

Ex-communicated a woman who used Gd's Name in vain, and then immediately removed it: Nedarim 7b

Involvement in [Not] Rescinding peoples' vows: Nedarim 21b, 27a

Fasted for 40 days when one of the straps of his Phylacteries reversed: Moed Katan 25a

Used to soak grain on Pesach, without fear of it becoming Leaven: Pesachim 40a

Made a new Kiddush when he switched from his house to the (adjacent) room of his son's Wedding: Pesachim 101a

Was shocked by a person who drank water before Havdalah: Pesachim 105a

His household set up and took apart hammocks on Shabbat, without concern for prohibition against Building: Shabbat 138a

Allowed spice-merchants to set up shop on the Intermediate Days of Holidays: Moed Katan 13b

Refused to sit on the same surface with a Torah Scroll: Moed Katan 25a

Rav Huna advising the purchasers of the Leader's household, on how to buy myrtle branches for Succos: Succah 30a-b

Rav Huna ordered a fast, and levied a Tzedakah-Tax on a community, including Rav Chanah bar Chanilai, which came for the fast. He insisted that the money be used for the poor of his own community, pointing to his own status in running the tzedakah, and to the fact that their poor relied on him as well: Megillah 27a-b

Correcting Levi bar Buti, was reading the Torah before him: Megillah 31b

Cutting off a criminal's hand for certain sins: Niddah 13b



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