Crying on verses expressing Gd's love of the Jews: Chagigah 4b
Lit candles himself for Shabbat: Shabbat 119a
What he used to eat at the "Seder" meal of Pesach Night: Pesachim 114b
Rav Huna was short: Megillah 27b
400 barrels of wine turned to vinegar, then become valuable when he corrected an oversight: Berachot 5b
Exclaimed, "By Gd [Ha'Elokim]!": Gittin 7a
Contending that he shouldn't have to pay a stealing sharecropper: Berachot 5b
Sarcastically commented, on seeing someone kill a wasp on Shabbat, "You've killed all of them now!": Shabbat 121b
He warned a woman who was mourning for one son that she shouldn't mourn too greatly, for fear of losing others, and so it happened: Moed Katan 27b
Rav Huna's Court was a much-travelled place: Bava Metzia 18b, 20b
A question Rav Huna was asked by his host's son when he went to Argiza: Zevachim 18b
The long story of his death and burial: Moed Katan 25a
According to R' Abba, Rav Huna was fit for manifestation of Gd's presence, but did not receive it because he resided in Bavel: Moed Katan 25a
Rav Huna was buried next to R' Chiyya, because they were both spreaders of Torah for the Jews: Moed Katan 25a
Rav Huna died suddenly, in his 80's: Moed Katan 28a
Rava said that he prayed for wisdom like Rav Huna's, and his request was granted: Moed Katan 28a Rav Ashi reporting that Persian King Yezdegerd told Rav Huna to lower his belt [to the position in which it was worn in the Beit haMikdash], because that style would be more dignified and reflecting of a nation of priests: Zevachim 19a
Anecdotes involing Rav Chisda
Calling Rav Chisda "Chisda, Chisda!": Bava Metzia 33a
Rav Huna said of Rav Chisda, "Your name is Chisda, and your words are "Chisda'in [Beautiful/Generous]": Gittin 7a
Rav Chisda referred his Legal questions to him: Bava Metzia 7a
Rav Chisda asked Rav Huna what the status of a Rebbe was for a student who was needed by the Rebbe, instigating off a 40-year period when the two didn't speak; afterwards, they each fasted 40 days, Rav Chisda for upsetting Rav Huna and Rav Huna for Suspecting Rav Chisda of Impertinence: Bava Metzia 33a
Rav Chisda and Rabbah bar Rav Huna disagreeing with a ruling of Rav Huna's because they had not been told a reason, and Rav Huna responding, "Have you ever asked a reason and not been told it?": Succah 14b
Rav Chisda used to praise Rav Hemnuna to Rav Huna, but Rav Huna wouldn't receive him until he got married [as he was over 20?]: Kiddushin 29b
Rav Chisda asking on an apparent self-contradiction in Rav's statements, after Rav Huna died: Menachot 42a
A question Rav Chisda asked regarding a law, when Rav Huna died: Eruvin 38b
Rav Yosef would periodically test Rav Chisda to see whether he would answer a simple legal question during Rav Huna's lifetime, and Rav Chisda would not do it: Eruvin 62b
Rav Chisda would rule on law in Kafri, which was not Rav Huna's town: Eruvin 62b-63a
Rav Huna reported a lesson in the name of Rabbi Yochanan, to which Rav Chisda replied, "By Gd! Even if Rabbi Yochanan himself would say this, I would not listen to him!": Berachot 24b
Anecdotes involving other Sages
Rav Huna was given the first Ascension to the Torah: Megillah 22a
Rav Huna's Rebbe was Rav: Shabbat 128a
Rav Huna told Rav Chanan bar Rava, "Don't disagree with me; Rav went to Damharya and practiced as I have said." According to Rav Chanan bar Rava, Rav performed a stringent practice in Damharia because the local people were lax in their Mitzvah observance, and he sought to distance them from sin: Eruvin 6a
Called Rav "Abba": Pesachim 107a
Rav blessed Rav Huna for his self-sacrifice in fulfilling the mitzvah of sanctification of Shabbat [Kiddush]; when the blessing came true at the wedding of Rabbah, Rav's son, Rav scolded Rav Huna for not responding to the blessing, "And to Master, too": Megillah 27b
Rabbah reporting questions they asked when they learned in Rav Huna's Study Hall: Eruvin 40a-41a Rav gave Rav Huna judicial license: Sanhedrin 5a
Rav instructing Rav Huna in a way to set up a shelter on Shabbat for Rav Huna's rams: Eruvin 102a
Rav Huna was sitting before Rav, and he questioned a practice of Rav's. Rav exclaimed, "This rabbi is like one who has never learned anything!": Eruvin 15a
Rav Huna once tore expensive clothing in front of his son, Rabbah, [in a way which could be repaired, although Rabbah was unaware], to test whether Rabbah would get angry: Kiddushin 32a
Gave judicial license to his son, Rabbah bar Rav Huna: Sanhedrin 5a
Accused by Rav Nachman of claiming that a personal ruling was unanimous: Ketuvot 19a
Being called "Huna Chavrin [Our friend]" by Rav Nachman: Bava Metzia 15a; Niddah 16a Rav Nachman called Rav Huna, "Huna": Eruvin 42b; Bava Metzia 70b
Rav Chisda used to praise Rav Hemnuna to Rav Huna, but Rav Huna wouldn't receive him until he got married [as he was over 20?]: Kiddushin 29b
Called "Izi" - My Friend - by Rami Bar Yechezkel: Shabbat 138b
Responding to a question uncertainly, sometimes "Yes" and sometimes "No": Bava Metzia 14b
R' Yirmiyah dozing off before his students, Rav Huna and Rav Yitzchak bar Yosef; then waking and calling them "Children!" correcting a statement of theirs from when he was "asleep": Gittin 11b
Rav Huna challenged the attribution of a statement by Rav Yosef, angering him to the point where Rav Yosef turned his face away: Succah 11a
Rav Yosef reciting something he had learned, in front of Rav Huna: Eruvin 7a
R' Abba reporting an anecdote about Rav Huna: Nedarim 7b
Rav Ami and Rav Asi, the two [most] important Kohanim of Israel, were subject to him: Megillah 22a
Rav Huna wouldn't allow Rav Chanah bar Chanilai to carry a shovel for him, before determining that Rav Chana ordinarily carried shovels: Megillah 28a
Rami bar Shemuel and Rav Yitzchak beraih deRav Yehudah, learning in the school of Rav Huna when overheard by Rav Huna's son, Rabbah bar Rav Huna: Niddah 17b
Rav Huna presenting a kal vachomer to deduce a law in order to sharpen his students' minds by challenging it, or in order to inspire his students to be creative, even though the kal vachomer was flawed and the law had actually been learned from a tradition: Zevachim 12b-13a
Personal Practices
Set of Statements, mostly on prayer, quoted by R' Chelbo: Berachot 6b
Set of Statements related to prayer and bathrooms: Berachot 24b-25a Ex-communicated a woman who used Gd's Name in vain, and then immediately removed it: Nedarim 7b
Involvement in [Not] Rescinding peoples' vows: Nedarim 21b, 27a
Fasted for 40 days when one of the straps of his Phylacteries reversed: Moed Katan 25a
Used to soak grain on Pesach, without fear of it becoming Leaven: Pesachim 40a
Made a new Kiddush when he switched from his house to the (adjacent) room of his son's Wedding: Pesachim 101a
Was shocked by a person who drank water before Havdalah: Pesachim 105a
His household set up and took apart hammocks on Shabbat, without concern for prohibition against Building: Shabbat 138a
Allowed spice-merchants to set up shop on the Intermediate Days of Holidays: Moed Katan 13b
Refused to sit on the same surface with a Torah Scroll: Moed Katan 25a
Rav Huna advising the purchasers of the Leader's household, on how to buy myrtle branches for Succos: Succah 30a-b
Rav Huna ordered a fast, and levied a Charity-Tax on a community, including Rav Chanah bar Chanilai, which came for the fast. He insisted that the money be used for the poor of his own community, pointing to his own status in running the charity, and to the fact that their poor relied on him as well: Megillah 27a-b
Correcting Levi bar Buti, was reading the Torah before him: Megillah 31b
Cutting off a criminal's hand for certain sins: Niddah 13b
