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The Talmud relates: Rav was the son of R' Ḥiyya’s half brother and the son of R' Ḥiyya’s half sister, as Ayevu, Rav’s father, married his own stepsister, Imma. When Rav ascended there, to Eretz Yisrael, R' Ḥiyya said to Rav: Is your father, Ayevu, alive? He said to him, replying with a question:
R' Ḥiyya said to his attendant: Remove my shoes and carry my garments after me to the bathhouse. The Talmud comments: Learn from R' Ḥiyya’s instructions 3 halakhot. Learn from it that wearing shoes is prohibited for a mourner, which is why he instructed his servant to remove his shoes. And learn f
With regard to the precision required in language, the Talmud relates: A certain man would regularly say whenever involved in conflict: Adjudicate my case [dunu dini]. The rabbis said: Learn from it that he descends from the tribe of Dan, as it is written: “Dan will judge [yadin] his people like on
The Talmud relates a similar incident: A certain man would regularly walk and say: The bushes on the seashore are cypresses (ge’onim), i.e., items located by the sea are more beautiful than those found in other places. They examined his lineage and found that he descends from the tribe of Zebulun, a
The Talmud returns to the issue of the search for leaven. And now that we maintain that everyone agrees the word or in the Mishnah is evening, consider the following: After all, both according to the opinion of R' Yehuda and according to that of R' Meir, who disagree with regard to the deadline de