Talmud passages referenced in Rav Hisda's Daughter: Book 1 - Apprentice

Chapter 1:
Pesachim 107a – sons of Hisda in Kafri
Ketubot 61a – Mari & Pinchas pious sons of Hisda
Bava Metzia 66b – Yenuka & Keshisha sons of Hisda
Sanhedrin 66ab – Elohim is both secular and sacred name
Hullin 108b - Nakid [clean] = angel of sustenance, Naval [filth] = demon of poverty
Bava Batra 12b - Hisda asks daughter to choose between Rami and Rava
Bava Batra 21a - allowing teacher in courtyard

Chapter 2:
Berachot 21b – death for sorcerers
Shabbat 62b - Hisda washes with full handfuls
Shabbat 81b – Hisda in boat with witch
Ketubot 59b – tasks a wife or slave does for husband
Kiddushin 29b - Hisda married at 16, bones blasted if not married by 20
Sanhedrin 17a – appoint men to Sanhedrin who know witchcraft
Sanhedrin 17b – “Elders of Sura” are Hisda and Huna
Sanhedrin 44b - Rashi tells of witches of Ashkelon
Hullin 105b – Hisda & sorceress cast spells on boat
Menachot 43b – morning blessings to not make me a slave
Menachot 65a – Sanhedrin judge must know witchcraft

Chapter 3:
Berachot 26a – Persian privies
Berachot 62a – protection from demons in privy
Shabbat 10b - Hisda received priestly portions of meat
Shabbat 81a – wiping oneself with stones
Shabbat 81b – Hisda says kavod habriot [human dignity] supersedes a Torah prohibition.
Shabbat 82a – wipe with shard vs. stone
Gittin 56a – Hisda gave keys to steward except for woodshed keys
Gittin 45a – Rav Nachman’s daughters kidnapped
Avoda Zara 24b – Persian word dashtana for menstruation

Chapter 4:
Pesachim 113a – Hisda became rich from beer
Ketubot 61a – Mari & Pinchas feed waiter & talk with Elijah in dreams
Hullin 84b1 – sorcerer’s bowl

Chapter 5:
Shabbat 140a – Hisda ate vegetables when poor
Eruvin 73a – marvoi a roofed alley, often a dead end
Pesachim 49a - is betrothal feast a mitzvah?
Ned 49a – bread & porridge in morning
Kiddushin 9a – language of betrothal that husband gives to father of minor
Bava Kama 113b – land tax [tasqa] and head tax [karga]

Chapter 6:
Berachot 25a – Hisda fastidious, Berachot 55b – Evil Eye
Shabbat 140b - Hisda teaches daughters proper behavior with husbands
Moed Katan 11a – fish left in dry canal
Yevamot 21b – Chadean/ astrologer told that Hisda would be teacher
Yevamot 37b – Rav Nachman takes wife for a day
Yevamot 63b – Persian decrees against Jews
Ketubot 7b – betrothal blessing
Ketubot 61a – woman washes husband’s hands & feet, Hisda eating with slave serving
Bava Metzia 107b – Rav says most die of Evil Eye, not illness

Chapter 7:
Shabbat 61ab - definition of effective amulets and expert amulet scribes
Eruvin 18b – Adam begot ruchim, sheydin, lillin during first 140 years
Pesachim 109b – 4 cups dangerous
Pesachim 111b – sixty demons in sorb tree
Pesachim 112b – demon Machlat
Moed Katan 28a - wealth & weddings of Hisda’s household
Shevuot 15b – Yehoshua b. Levi says Psalm 91 before sleep

Chapter 8:
Shabbat 109b – therapeutic bathing in flax water
Taanit 28b – revelation at Sinai on Shavuot
Megillah 5b - planting flax
Gittin 31b – east wind hot, dry desert wind
Kiddushin 41a – forbidden to betroth minor daughter, wait until she’s old enough to choose
Kiddushin 81b - Hisda and Hanan argue over betrothing minor vs. sleeping with grand-dau
Hullin 106a – OK to immerse in putrid flax water

Chapter 9:
Shabbat 75a - calculating tekufot
Pesachim 111b – Ketev Meriri demon
Sotah 39a – Hisda explains rules of priestly benediction

Chapter 10:
Berachot 29b30a – Hisda says traveler’s prayer
Berachot 61a – Nachman b. Hisda says yetzer with 2 yuds for tov and hara, Rava says
yetzer hara like a fly
Eruvin 65a – south wind
Sukkah 29a – Hisda praises Rami and Rava who study together
Yoma 69b - sages try to kill yetzer hara, no egg found in Israel for 3 days
Sukkah 52b – yetzer hara
Moed Katan 9b - women getting ready for party on Chol Moed including Hisda’s wife,
Ketubot 17b – customs for wedding of virgin
Bava Batra 60a – Rami & Rava argue over enlarging doorways
Sanhedrin 64a - sages try to kill yetzer hara, no egg found in Israel for 3 days
Hullin 132b – Hisda excommunicates butchers for 22 years

Chapter 11:
Berachot 24b – Hisda says “Ha Elohim”
Nedarim 51a – obscene wedding jokes & puns
Sotah 48a – music at Hisda’s included lyre, flute, drum, cymbals, horns
Niddah 47a – R. Nachman switched his slaves sexually, Sheshet gave them to Arabs

Chapter 12:
Pesachim 112b – cats eat snakes
Bava Metzia 96b - Rami vs. Rava on husband renting/borrowing wife’s property
Bava Batra 42a - husband may sell or give land to wife and receives no produce
Bava Batra 51ab – wife acquiring property from husband; gift, sale, or test for hidden
property?
Bava Batra 141a - Hisda prefers daughters to sons
Hullin 95b – Rav visits R. Hanan, where feast is happening but Rav won't eat because
wedding between scholar's dau & uneducated man [Hisda & Hanan's dau?]

Chapter 13:
Shabbat 26a – mother-in-law tries to kill daughter-in-law with balsam oil
Shabbat 151b – those who sleep alone attacked by liliths
Eruvin 62b – Hisda not judge in same city as Huna
Taanit 7b - Hisda says rain withheld because of neglect of tithes and trumah
Taanit 12b - rules for fasting when rain hasn’t come by certain date
Yevamot 63b – Rava on bad wife with large Ketuba
Bava Metzia 33a - Huna & Hisda [when young] argue over needing each other
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?

Chapter 14:
Berachot 62a – Rami bar Chama’s mother knows privy amulet
Berachot 81b - Shard with excrement used for witchcraft
Moed Katan 18b - wedding joy for him but not for her
Ketubot 57a – Rami’s sister

Chapter 15:
Shabbat 33a – Hisda says those who use obscenity Gehenna made deeper, Hanan
says those who sing about why bride enters huppah have good Heavenly decree reversed
Ketubot 8b – we all know why bride enters huppah but rude to say so
Sanhedrin 21a - Jewish women remove underarm and pubic hair

Chapter17:
Berachot 53a – funeral on Sat night
Shabbat 31b - Hisda & Rava on why women die in childbirth
Shabbat 65a- Rava on mohk for niddah on Shabbat
Pesachim 107a – Rava rather drink flax water than date beer
Moed Katan 8a – gathering bones of parents
Sotah 21a - women studying Torah gives them merit
Kiddushin 40b – Torah study more important than doing mitzvot
Bava Metzia 107b – Rav says most die of Evil Eye
Avoda Zara 19a – Hisda tells students best to study with other masters, so they leave him
Ch 18: Berachot 7a – Rava on Torah study
Berachot 8a - Rava & Hisda on God loves Torah study more than synagogue attendance
Berachot 51a – therapeutic to drink ispargus first in morning
Shabbat 127a - Elu devarim [Torah study equals them all]
Eruvin 67a – Sheshet trembled before Hisda’s reasoning
Yoma 69b- sages try to kill yetzer hara, no egg found in Israel for 3 days
Megillah 16b4 – Torah study more important than rebuilding Temple
Kiddushin 40b - Torah study more important than doing mitzvot
Gittin 7a – Hisda & Huna discuss crown and miter with exilarch

Chapter 19:
Eruvin 90a – Rami & Rava argue
Yevamot 63b – Rava on bad wife
Ketubot 63b - Rami supports Rava re rebellious wife while Rava insults Nachman b. Hisda
Ketubot 94b – Rami vs. brother Ukva over mother’s will
Bava Kama 20ab - Rami & Hisda vs. Rava on squatter vs owner; does the one who benefits
pay if the other suffers no loss? Hisda does favor for Rami by folding his cloak
Bava Batra 58a - Magus exhumes dead rabbi who grabs his beard, but Abaye intervenes
Bava Batra 116ab - Rami vs. Rava on inheritance order of descendents
Bava Batra 151a - Rami vs. Ukva over mother’s deathbed gift, Sheshet vs. Nachman’s court
Shevuot 12b - Rava insults Nachman b. Hisda, calls his ruling stupid
Zevaim 96b – Rava proves Rami wrong for using svara instead of tradition
Niddah 33b – Rami & Rava argue over zavah who emits semen

Chapter 20:
Berachot 47b – why Rami bar Hama died young
Berachot 51a - women returning from funeral
Shabbat 109b – treatment for snake bite
Shabbat 110a – rabbi’s snake that bites sinners
Yoma 83b – remedy for snakebite eating leeks
Rosh Hashana 16b - 3 books opened for righteous, evil, & average people

Chapter 21:
Moed Katan 25a - death of Huna with Hisda there
Moed Katan 27a – incense placed under corpse
Gittin 45a - Hisda’s slave runs away to minim
Ch 22: Moed Katan 25a – Rav Huna’s burial in Israel
Ch 23: Yevamot 65ab – childless wife? Rava says OK to take second one
Ketubot 102b – Hisda says daughters belong with widowed mother

Chapter 24:
Ketubot 49ab - father’s support, or not, of daughters
Ketubot 60ab - question of remarriage for nursing widow
Kiddushin 78b79a – invalid betrothal of adult daughter by father so she needs a get
Menachot 37ab - Rami & two-headed man wearing tefillin, two-headed baby for pidyon haben

Chapter 25:
Ketubot 60b - remarriage of nursing widow
Kiddushin 29b - marry or study Torah first?
Sanhedrin 17a – appoint men to Sanhedrin who can purify a sheretz
Bereshit Rabbah 33:3 – Babylonian synagogue in Sepphoris

Chapter 26:
Berachot 3ab – demons in ruin
Shabbat 119b - why Jerusalem was destroyed according to Rava & Avahu & others
Shabbat 129a – bloodletting rules

Chapter 27:
Bava Metzia 84 – story of Reish Lakish and R. Yohanan
Ch 28: Berachot 60a – R. Avahu saves 100 men when bathhouse floor collapses
Ketubot 62a – R. Avahu in bathhouse when floor collapses

Chapter 29:
Arachin 29a - when Yovel is not observed, laws of Jewish slaves are not observed
Sotah 40a – Rabbi’s wives complain at Pesach

Chapter 30:
Shabbat 109a – bathing in Hamat hot springs
Hullin 106a – OK to immerse in hot springs of Tiberius

Chapter 31:
Jerusalem Talmud Ter 8:11, 46b – Diocletian summons Judah Nesiah to appear just after Shabbat

Chapter 32:
Sanhedrin 39a – R. Avahu & Sabbatical year

Chapter 34:
Yevamot 115a - widow to remarry on 1 witness, even in wartime
Kiddushin 31b – Abaye’s mother dies at his birth & Em raised him