Talmud passages referenced in Enchantress

RAV HISDA
Berachot 24b: Exclaiming "Ha'Elohim! (By God!)"
Shabbat 140b Marital Advice to his daughters
Eruvin 65a: Rav Hisda's daughter asked him whether he doesn't need to sleep [for he spent the nights learning], and he responded, "The days that are long on sleep and short on learning are coming, and then I will have plenty of sleep": Yoma 75b: Rav Hisda's Death
Moed Katan 25a: Rav Hisda's burial
Moed Katan 28a: Rabbah and Rav Hisda were both righteous, and both were able to pray for rain and be answered, but Rabbah lived until 40, his house lost 60 children, and his household could barely find barley bread for its members, and Rav Hisda lived until 92, his house had 60 weddings, and his household gave good flour to the dogs:
Moed Katan 28a: Rava prayed for wealth like Rav Hisda's
Gittin 56a: Rav Hisda entrusted all of his keys to his servant - except for the key to the firewood storage area
Kiddushin 29b-30a: Hisda got married at the age of 17, and praised himself for it, and declared that he would have been even greater if he had married at 14
Makkot 10a: Rav Hisda stalled the Angel of Death by learning Torah, until the Angel snapped a board of the Study Hall, and he paused and died [also Moed Katan 28a]
RAVA
Berachot 17a: Rava's daily prayer admitting sin after the Amidah [also Yoma 87b]
Shabbat 153a: Rava was disliked by the people of Pumbedita
Eruvin 14b: Exclaiming "By God [HaElohim]!" [also Megillah 10a; Gittin 13b; Bava Metzia 16b]
Eruvin 104a: Rava taught a law, and then was corrected by Rav Pappa. Rava then set up a public forum, and recanted.
Pesachim 107a: Rava said that he would prefer flax-soaked water to beer
Rosh Hashanah 17a: Rava on the people of Mechoza
Megillah 7a: Rava cited a popular declaration, "It is better to have one sharp pepper than a basketful of gourds"
Moed Katan 28a: Rava said that his requests for Rav Huna's wisdom and Rav Hisda's wealth were granted, but not his request for Rabbah bar Rav Huna's humility
Hagigah 5ab: Sent money to Shapur Malka to avoid harassment by the government. Was harassed by the government despite this, as a result of an Evil Eye by the Rabbis
Nedarim 25a: How a party in a case that Rava was judging failed in attempting to fool the court, by hiding money he owed in a cane and passing it to his creditor before taking an oath
Bava Metzia 59a: Told the men of Mechoza to honor their wives, so that they would become wealthy.
Bava Metzia 81b: Rava rendering a ruling in case, then becoming upset [ichsif] when it appeared he had made a simple error - until it turned out that he had been correct all along. Bava Metzia 83a: Rav Joseph bar Rava questioning his father Rava's rulings.
Niddah 20b: Rava's test by Ifra Hormiz and her son, Shapur Malka.

Listing of all passages by Tractate order
BERACHOT
5ab – God’s sufferings of love
6a – Rava vs. Abaye on demons; how to see them & what they do, Bibi bar Abaye sees demons, is injured & needs rabbis’ prayers to be healed
8b – Rava's advice to sons: modest Persian behavior to kiss on hand
17a – Rava’s self-deprecating post-Amidah prayer, now said on YK
18b – Baraita about man hearing ghosts at cemetery on Rosh Hashana
20b- Women and time-bound positive mitzvot; Abaye vs. Rava on if women obligated to Shabbat & birchat hamazon from Torah or rabbis
21b – death for sorcerers
22a – baal keri immersion & Torah study, Akiva whispered to ben Azzai about nine kav leniency, who teaches in marketplace so rabbis will not neglect procreation & whispers so they will not be on wives like roosters
35a – If one ate & forgot to bless. Rava says go to sage to learn blessings
35b – Rava says don’t come to study Tishrei and Nissan, need to work. Abaye agrees
47b – Hisda & Sheshet/Abaye & Rava as youths, why Rami bar Hama died young
48a – Rava & Abaye study with Rabbah as youths; where is God
51a – therapeutic to drink alcoholic ispargus first in morning
51b – Yalta breaks 400 barrels of wine
56a – [dream interpretation] Rava: sons & daughters taken captive. Abaye has domineering wife; Rava’s wife will die, his children will have stepmom. Rava arrested for robbing king’s treasury. Rava’s wife will die, sons & daughters will die, he will divorce 2 wives. Abaye will die and Rava become rosh
59b – Rava re Machozan’s sex in daytime
62a – protection from demons in privy, Rava’s wife shakes nut & puts hand on his head
62a – counter curse spells against sorcery, tachim/tachtim
SHABBAT
12b – don’t say prayer for sick in Aramaic, angels/demons don’t recognize Aramaic
21b22ab – mitzvot of Hanukah
31a – Rava on questions asked by Heavenly Court after death
33a – hydrokan [edema] caused by sorcery, Rava & Abaye afflicted
41a – Rava [big] bends modestly to & from river, Zeira [small] stands tall & proud of milah
61a – definition of effective amulets and expert amulet scribes
66b – Em’s remedies, fever remedy w ant
108b –don’t touch orifices before washing in am b/c demons Bat Horin & Bat Melech need to be washed off
110a – rabbi’s snake that bites sinners, dashtana = menstrual
111a – sterility potion
129a – Hisda’s daughter on sickbed to Plumbedita, Rava warms her
134a – Em’s advice on newborn care, including baby who doesn’t suckle
140b – Hisda teaches daughters proper behavior with husbands
156ab – disposition of those born on different days of the week, Rava born under Mars, other astrology signs
ERUVIM
54a – Rava insults blind R. Yosef & then appeases him at YK w many Torah verses
64b – Jewish women lust to do sorcery
65a – south wind bad weather & north wind good weather. 100b – Rava on sex twice in a row to conceive son, Rami that impetuous w regalim [feet] means forbidden to force a woman [get bad children]
PESACHIM
43ab – women forbidden hametz so must eat matzah, even if time-bound mitzvah
54a – things created at first Shabbat, Rava mentions Shapur
72b – man’s mitzvah for sex w wife is procreative & onah, Rava says husband must give wife ‘mitzvah act’ if she desires it
107a – Rava rather drink flax water than date beer,
110a – head of sorceresses’ advice on how to prevent sorcery threat
111a – names of demons that witches use,
112b – cats eat snakes
112b – demon Agrat bat Machlat goes out at night on Wed & Sat
113a – Hisda became rich from beer, secret method
YOMA
23a – grudge vs revenge, Rava on should Torah scholar recalls insult or not
77b – Shivta is demon on hands, must wash 3x in morning prior eating
83b – sorceresses practice magic on dogs, how to kill mad dog/evil spirit
84a - spell to cure mad dog bite, R. Yohanan cured of tzefidna
84b – danger to life supersedes Shabbat
85b – Mishna on atonement for sins between man & man, man & God
87a – Hisda on placating 3x, more rabbis appease each other, how to ask forgiveness
87b – various rabbis' confession prayers, including Rava's
SUKKAH
2b - Queen Helene’s tall sukkah
25b – Abaye vs Rava vs Zeira on huppah in sukkah
28a – Mishna on women exempt from sukkah 28b – argument w Abaye & Rava over women exempt sukkah, compare to Yom Kippur; reply that it’s tradition, not from Torah verse
52ab – on yetzer hara; Abaye follows couple [52a], Rava’s view [52b],
53a – Abaye juggles
BEITZA
25b – Yalta & others carried in litter on Yom Tov, Joseph bar Rava
ROSH HASHANA
18a – curse of Eli so Abaye lives 60 yrs, uncle Rabbah 40;
30b – celebrate 15th Av b/c that’s when Israelites stopped dying in the wilderness
32b – Mishna on women & shofar
33a – Abaye asks if women restrained from shofar or permitted
TAANIT
20b – demon Shivta on dirty hands, Rava’s good deeds
24b –Shapur challenges Rava for rain with Ifra Hormidz, Rava’s bed slashed
26b – why fast on 17th Tammuz & Tisha B’Av
MEGILLAH
7b – Abaye, Rava & Zeira on Purim gifts & drinking; Rava says to drink so much can’t tell between Mordecai and Haman.
10a – Rava says ‘HaElohim’
MOED KATAN
9b – adornments for women include kohl, rouge, braiding hair, shaving ‘lower face’ & lime
for depilatory. Hisda’s wife getting ready for party on Chol Moed
15a – forbidden for mourners to study Torah
15ab – rules for mourners
8a – pregnant woman miscarries if she walks over discarded nails
23a – wait 3 festivals after wife’s death to remarry, Abaye pressed & Rava’s red Roman clothes during Sheloshim 25a – Rabbah b. Huna & R. Hamnuna die, buried in Israel but camels won’t cross bridge
26b – Rava in mourning
27a – incense placed under corpse
28a – meaning of death at various ages; Rava says children, sustenance & life depends on mazal; wealth & weddings of Hisda vs. Rabbah; Rava asks for wisdom, wealth & humility.
28a - Hisda, Rava, & Nachman with Angel of Death & pain of dying, cedars near Hisda’s
house break
HAGIGAH
3b – Evil spirits in cemetery at night
4b– Angel of Death & mistaken death of Miriam hairbraider, Dumah = angel keeper of dead, prematurely dead’s years added to forgiving student
5a – Hisda’s dau knows how to porge meat before Shabbat, Rava trusts her in this
5b – Rava bribes Shapur, Rabbi’s set eyes against Rava,!
12a – many Baraitot on creation/bereshit
16a – six characteristics of demons [shaydim] vs. angels and people
16b* - Rami on women laying hands on animals at Temple
YEVAMOT
8ab – Argument over co-wives and yibum between Rami & Rava too complicated to detail
21b – Chaldean/astrologer told Hisda to be a ‘teacher’
34b – Rava and RHD when she’s pregnant, rabbis murmur
37b – Rav Nachman takes wife for a day
52a – rabbinic lashes for betrothal by sex
64a – Mishna on divorce after 10 childless years
64b – Rava on bad wife with high ketuba, Zippori sisters’ sons died in circumcision; is 2 or 3x a pattern? Abaye weds Homa; Homa’s previous husbands = Rechava of Pumbedita & Rav Yitzak b. Rabbah, her father = Issi bar Rav Yitzchak bar Rav Yehuda
65a - childless wife? Rava says OK to take 2nd one 65b – R. Chiya & wife Yehudit w sterility potion
76a - Rava on impotence test; lesbians mere lewdness, not sexual relations
80ab – eight mo pregnancy baby cannot live
105a – Curse of Eli; Rabbah studied Torah lived to 40, Abaye did Torah & kindness to 60
KETUBOT
2b3a – Rava on conditional get & unavoidable delay, based on svara to prevent agunah & Mamzer; husband delayed at river
5a – Baraita on virgin marries on Wed & widow on Thurs, so widow gets 3 days to rejoice
12a – widow’s ketuba high for Kohaness
39b – Rava vs. on rapist vs. seducer, Rava and RHD on pain of losing virginity
61a – women washes husband’s hands & feet, Mari & Pinchas are Hisda’s pious sons who feed waiter & talk with Elijah
61b – Mishna on how long men w different jobs may leave wife without sex
62b – students leave wives to study Torah; R. Rechumi, student of Rava, dies from not coming home to visit wife
63a – Joseph and Rava fight on erev Yom Kippur when he comes home to visit wife; bread in his basket
65a – Homa in court with Rava, also widow of Rava’s son Joseph
85a - RHD in court with undependable woman witness & Rava
20b – bad children from bad sex
25a – cane of Rava, man swears in court with gold inside cane
49a – bread & porridge in Bavel in morning
51a – obscene wedding jokes & puns!
55a – longer story of Eruv 54a w Rava insulting and then appeasing R. Yosef, Bar Shmuel
leaves 13,000 zuz to Rava from Nehar Panya alata
62a – Rava on learning Torah for personal gain, scholar gains for ID
62b – Rava lies to avoid taxes 88a – Mishna on vow to prevent benefit to son-in-law from daughter’s property
88b – Rava on above Mishna
SOTAH
22a – sorcerers don’t understand their incantations, but they work anyway
33a – language of prayer, angels/demons don’t understand Aramaic
GITTIN
31b – E wind hot/sultry, S wind cool, N wind gentle & not hot or cold. East wind = hot, dry desert wind.
34a – Rava vs. Abaye: Abaye says intent does not invalidate get, Rava says it does; man with conditional get at river not void, Abaye wins – need beit din to invalidate get
36a – Hisda signs with a ‘samech’
45a – R. Nachman’s daughters stir the pot by sorcery
67b - Yalta cures R. Amram's chills with bath.
68ab – King Solomon & demons, Ashmedai captured, tells Solomon how to find Shamir, and then tricks him to depose him and visit queens even when niddah
69b – date pits boiled in water is sterility potion
73a – Rava uproots Torah, makes marriage conditional on rabbi's rules
KIDDUSHIN
5b – woman initiating Kiddushin not valid
7a – woman initiates betrothal is valid if man is important
12a – Shammai compared kiddushin to buying female slave
12b - Rav gives lashes for improper Kiddushin [including by sex]
29b – demon in Abaya’s study hall; Hisda married at 16, Rava says bones blasted if not married by 20
31b – Abaye’s mother dies at his birth, Em raised him
32ab – Hisda/Rava renouncing honor, Mari & Pinchas don’t stand for Rava at son’s wedding 34-35 women and time-bound positive mitzvot 34a - Rava & Abyae on women obligated to Sukkah
39b – Rava on reward for mitzvot in this world or next?
51a – Rava vs. Abaye on betrothal of intermingled daughters; Abaye wins
70ab – Yehuda, Nachman & Donag forbidden to make use of a woman, greetings to Yalta
73a- Zeira & Rava lecture to Machoza converts, pelted with etrogs & silks
BAVA KAMMA
72b73a – Rava/Abaye on zomein witnesses, disqualified retroactive or not? Abaye wins!
BAVA METZIA
29b –dangerous sorcery cup, metal more than pottery cup
33a – Huna & Hisda [when young] argue over needing each other until 40 years, fight then each does 40 fasts
35a – Tachlifa’s son Rav Huna studied with Rava
36ab – Rami supports Rava against Abaye over negligent shomer
44a – Mishna on reneging on purchase, mi shepara curse
51a – Rava on selling silk ribbons
59a –Rava on honoring wife
60a – Rava dilutes wine
64b – Rav Nachman’s slave Dari
67b - Rava [grandson of Rava] son of Joseph
73b – Rava on enslaving Jews too poor to pay karga; R. Seoram, Rava’s brother, seizes
people to carry Rava’s litter
86b – Rava’s son Rav Chanina, angels don’t eat or drink
97a – borrowed cat dies, either killed by mice or by eating too many mice
106b – Hebrew constellation names
BAVA BATRA
8a – Nachman b. Hisda tax collector
8a – Ifra Hormizd donating to redeem captives 8b – Rava coerces rich man to give charity
10b – Ifra Hormizd sends 400 dinar to Rava for charity
12b – Hisda asks daughter to choose between Rami and Rava
33b – lying/zomein witnesses; Abaye & Rava on disputed property
98b – father builds widow house for daughter
121a – celebrate 15th Av b/c that’s when Israelites stopped dying in the wilderness
153a – Rava’s scribe/slave is Rav Papi, Rava is cursed by a woman he tries to fool that his
ship will sink
SANHEDRIN
17a – appoint men to Sanhedrin who know witchcraft and can purify a sheretz
21a – Rava says Jewish women remove underarm and pubic hair
27a – Rava vs. Abaye on zomem [lying] witnesses; Abaye [wins] disqualifies retroactively, Rava from here on
65ab – difference between conjurers and sorcerers; some fast & go to cemetery to consult/conjure demons/shaydim
65b – Rava creates man/golem & sends to Zeira, Rav Oshaya creates one-third calf
66ab – Elohim is both a secular or sacred name
67a – Stoning sorceresses [feminine]
67b – definition of sorcery & kashafa, actual act or illusion? Belateihem [w demons/ shaydim] vs. belahateihem [acts of sorcery]; woman turned into donkey; rabbis permitted to create with God’s name
68a – R. Eliezer teaches cucumber sorcery, sorcery permitted to learn & teach
74b – Rava vs. Abaye on Jews giving braziers to Persian priests, is this idol worship?
90a – Mishna forbids to incant Ex 15:26 over a wound
99b100a – Benjamin physician says ‘what use are rabbis’ to Rava
101a – don’t sing Shir HaShirim at wedding banquet, incanting Ex 15:26 over wound OK w/o spit, inquiring of shaydim may be OK 101b – forbidden to say God’s name according to its letters in public
MAKKOT
5a – Rava on various scenarios of lying witnesses
10a – Angel of Death breaks tree, interrupts Hisda studying and takes him
11a – sage’s curse comes true
SHEVUOT
15b – Psalm 91 is Song of Harm/Pega or Plagues/Nega; is it permitted or forbidden to use Torah verses to heal and to protect from illness?
AVODAH ZARA
19a – Rava’s sayings about Torah study & psalms, Psalm 1
19b – not allowed to give legal decisions before age 40, but Rava does this
20ab – Angel of Death w sword/poison
22a – Rava almost errs & is embarrassed
28ab – Em’s remedies
70a – shofar announces start of Shabbat sunset
HOROAYOT
14a – Rava, Abaye, Zeira, Rabban b. Masnah: who will be leader at Pumbedita?
MENACHOT
42ab – Hisda vs. Nachman on blessing or not over making tzitzit & tefillin
42b – Hisda blesses on attaching tzitzit, Nachman on donning garment
43a – R. Yehuda’s wife wears tzitzit; are women obligated or exempt?
65a – Sanhedrin judge must know sorcery
HULLIN
10a – Hisda on nick in knife after slaughter, is it kosher?
28a – Rava & son Joseph on examining bloody duck’s trachea, Joseph right
44b – Rava, Hisda and dau over buying meat that rabbi permitted
77b – Rava & Abaye agree any therapeutic magic practice is not ‘the way of Amorites’ 80a – Rava calls son Mesharashay wise for rubbing lung punctures
84b – sorcerer’s cup OK or less dangerous than warm water in metal bowl
104a – is fowl w milk a rabbinic fence?
104b – Mishna on fowl & cheese on table together; Hillel, Shammai & Zeira on wiping vs. rinsing between eating meat and cheese
105b – Hisda & sorceress cast spells on boat,
107b – Shivta, Bat Melech demons of dirty hands
109b – Yalta on udders & permitted foods that substitute for prohibited foods
KERITOT
3b – Abaye vs. Rava on conjuring demons
5b – good omens with examples not divination
NIDDAH
16b – Rava on sex during the daytime & repeating the act
20b – blood of desire, Ifra Hormiz sends blood spots to Rava
30b – fetal development; fetus learns Torah, sees far away & angel silences at birth
31a – 3 partners in a child, wonders of fetal growth; how to have sons, Rava says have sex
twice in a row
31b – why niddah forbidden to husband for 7 days, why do men pursue women?
47a – R. Nachman switched his slaves sexually
66a – Zeira says women imposed 7 clean days after niddah; Rava says custom, not law
71a – how to have sons, man delays until wife emit seed first