Personal Stories of Rebbe

According to Abbaye, Rabbah, Rav, Rebbe and King David habitually slept like horses, meaning that they napped for 60 "breaths": Succah 26b

Rebbe's instructions to his children: Pesachim 112b

Successfully praying for the cure of 2 mute men who learned in his neighborhood: Chagigah 3a

Crying over Prayers of Mourning for the 9th of Av: Chagigah 5b

Rebbe preferred sons to daughters: Pesachim 65a

Rebbe confusing his students when he changed his point of view on an issue: Bava Metzia 44a

Rebbe's wealth was greater than that of Shevor Malka: Shabbat 113b

Rebbe honored wealthy people: Eruvin 85b-86a

Rebbe was termed "Rabbeinu HaKadosh [Our Holy Rebbe]" because he didn't look or touch below his belt: Shabbat 118b

When a student killed a snake in the Study Hall, Rebbe said "A destructive creature has killed a destructive creature": Shabbat 121b

Rebbe lived in Tiveria: Megillah 5b

Rebbe traveling to a town and finding them making elementary mistakes in law due to their misunderstanding of a rabbi they had heard: Sanhedrin 5b

Rebbe's role in authoring the Mishnah: Megillah 9b

A woman's complaint to him regarding her husband's manners during sexual relations, and his response: Nedarim 20b

Rebbe remarking on a woman in his neighborhood who was deaf and mute, and yet was noted as an expert in checking menstrual blood for impurity [an extremely difficult legal area]: Niddah 13b

Responding to a question, "There are two answers to this": Shabbat 115a

Rebbe saying, "My words appear to be more correct than those of my father [Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel] in this matter": Eruvin 32a

Rebbe was called upon to calibrate local volume measurements versus those of the Torah: Eruvin 83a

Rebbe married off his son to the daughter of Rabbi Yosi ben Zimra; his son first thought he would learn in yeshiva for twelve years before the marriage, but when he saw her he decided to marry her first, and then go learn in yeshiva: Ketuvot 62b

When Rabbi Yosi ben Zimra's son-in-law [the son of Rebbe] decided to marry his wife before going to yeshiva, he was embarrassed before Rabbi Yosi ben Zimra. Rabbi Yosi ben Zimra calmed him by pointing out that Hashem first said that the Jews would enter Israel before having a Beit haMikdash, and then Hashem so desired to be with us that He gave us a Mishkan in the wilderness: Ketuvot 62b

Rabbi Yosi ben Zimra's daughter became infertile because her husband, the son of Rebbe, remained in yeshiva for too many years after marrying her; he prayed for her and she was healed: Ketuvot 62b


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