Rabbi Tarfon

Rabbi Tarfon's treatment of his mother: Kiddushin 31b

Rava commenting on a statement by Rabbi Tarfon: "His Master should forgive him!": Succah 32b

Rabbi Tarfon was admonished for reading Shema prone [by the road] like the House of Shammai's ruling: Berachot 10b

Gave candies to children, to keep them awake and involved on Pesach night: Pesachim 109a

Swearing on the life of his son: Shabbat 116a; Zevachim 13a

Rabbi Tarfon, Rabbi Yosi HaGelili, Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah and Rabbi Akiva attempting to console Rabbi Yishmael on the loss of his sons: Moed Katan 28b

Rabbi Yehudah learning before Rabbi Tarfon: Kiddushin 14a

Rabbi Yehudah reading the Scroll of the Purim Story before Rabbi Tarfon and the Elders in Lud: Megillah 20a

Rabbi Tarfon and the Sages, learning in the upper level of the house of Nitzah in Lud: Kiddushin 40b

Rabbi Tarfon said he had heard a lesson on a subject but he could not explain it, and then Rabbi Akiva explained it. Rabbi Tarfon swore "ha'Avodah," by the service in the beit hamikdash [or by the Name of Gd, per some commentators], that Rabbi Akiva was correct, and declared that anyone who departed from Rabbi Akiva was as though he was departing from his own life: Zevachim 13a

Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarfon said that had they been on the courts, capital punishment would never have been administered. Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel responded that they would then be increasing the number of murders: Makkot 7a

Rabbi Tarfon resting outside a town when Shabbat began, not realizing he was within the "Techum" boundary of travel for the town: Eruvin 45a

Rabbi Tarfon's rulings in Lod on price-gouging and profiteering, and the reaction of the Lod marketplace: Bava Metzia 49b-50b

Rabbi Tarfon issuing a ruling in the first part of a mishnah, and then issuing a contradictory ruling in the second part of that mishnah, implying that he recanted from the initial position: Bechorot 18b


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