Said his abstinence from alcohol was what spared his daughters the need for depilatories: Shabbat 80b
Drank wine after blood-letting until his "spleen floated": Shabbat 129a
Rav Nachman said he couldn't think straight without drinking a Reviit of wine: Eruvin 64a
Discussion with the deceased Rav Achai bar Yoshiyah, when R' Achai disturbed some gravediggers: Shabbat 152b
Remembering a Law which his father was told by Shemuel, when his father was a Scribe for Shemuel: Bava Metzia 16b
Rav Nachman taught a law, and then a question was asked against his decision. He responded by setting up a public lecture, and announcing, "What I said was wrong; this is the law...": Eruvin 16b
Once was told after Yom Kippur that his town had fasted on the wrong day, and he told the messenger from Damharya, "Blood ['Dam'] will be your end!": Rosh HaShanah 21a
Stated that he wished that Gd would redeem the Jews, even in great wrath: Rosh HaShanah 32b
Claimed that he was enough of a public expert that he could judge financial cases alone: Sanhedrin 5a
Rav Nachman was an in-law of the Leader of the Jews, and head of the court: R. Kiddushin 33a "Rav Nachman Shadar"
He would send aides to help elderly passersby, not going himself because he said that his own honor was the Torah's, and not his own, to allow him to forgive it: Kiddushin 33a
Rav Nachman challenging the statement that the mention of Rachav's name was enough to gain the attention of men who knew of her: Megillah 15a
Heard a case involving a widow, and was forced to rule against her because she hadn't performed the proper procedure: Eruvin 25a
When the king's soldiers occupied Neherdaa, making space difficult, Rav Nachman told his students to go prepare reed seats (from non-brittle reeds) for themselves in a meadow before Shabbat, so that they could use the seats on Shabbat: Eruvin 34b
Rav Nachman exclaiming, "How great is this lesson!": Eruvin 64a
Whether Rav Nachman suffered of "Pedagara," an illness afflicting the legs, or he learned it from his teacher, or he just knew its effects via Divine inspiration: Sotah 10a
Rav Nachman established a barrel that held 9 kav-measures of water, to pour on students each morning for purification purposes: Berachot 22a
Series of Rav Nachman's conversations with R' Yitzchak: Taanit 5a-6a
Rav Nachman was not personally affected by mentioning the name of Rachav: Taanit 5b
R' Yitzchak's blessing of Rav Nachman, that like the tree that already possesses all blessings, his children should be like him: Taanit 5b-6a
Personal Practices
Claimed his reward should be for keeping 3 meals on Shabbat: Shabbat 118b
Claimed his Divine reward should be for not travelling 4 Cubits without Tzitzit-Fringes: Shabbat 118b
Whipping one who claimed his wife had falsely claimed to be virginal, because the man was an expert in being able to tell: Ketuvot 10a
Demonstrated a Mourner's Covering of the Head to be until the area below the month: Moed Katan 24a
The Verdict is like him in financial issues: Ketuvot 13a
Rav Nachman's opinion of the value of avadim: Bava Metzia 64b
Rav Nachman had his servant Daru keep him awake [specifically] during the first verse of Recitation of Shema: Berachot 13b
Rav Nachman asked his servant Daru how he would feel if he was freed, and Rav Nachman considered Daru's response to be the fulfillment of "Mah Nishtanah" of Pesach night: Pesachim 116a
Personal Custom on Bills where the Witnesses were unavailable: Ketuvot 19a
Personal Custom on Bills where Witnesses claim there was a Condition: Ketuvot 19b
Allowed Court Scribes to read Bills to him when they were brought for his signature as a witness; he wouldn't allow regular scribes to do so, though: Gittin 19b
Thought he could salt large quantities of radishes on Shabbat, having heard that it damaged them, but changed his usage when he heard that people salt turnips: Shabbat 108b
Rav Nachman reversing the sides in a Mishnah to match known views of the Sages involved: Shabbat 143a
Rav Nachman advising sailors on how to know the calendar while at sea: Rosh HaShanah 21a
Rav Nachman ordered the removal of the dirt blocking the doors of Neherdaa from being closed, so that Neherdaa could be considered a Karmelit: Eruvin 6b
Rav Nachman was asked a question, and he gave his own answer as well as the different answer of the students of Shemuel: Eruvin 70b
Rava reported on what Rav Nachman did with his holy scrolls and phylacteries when entering the bathroom: Berachot 23a-b
Rava asked Rav Nachman a question, but Rav Nachman replied that he wouldn't respond "until you measure out a Kur of salt on it for me": Eruvin 36a
Rava asked Rav Nachman a question, but Rav Nachman didn't have an answer and so he didn't say anything [Ishtik]: Eruvin 37b
Rava challenged Rav Nachman from a source, Rav Nachman replied with a source that supported his own position, and then Rava refuted both the challenging source and the supporting source: Bava Metzia 67a
Rav Nachman said regarding a lesson, "That is not a good lesson!" Rava challenged him, as one is not supposed to approve of, or disapprove of, Torah lessons. Rav Nachman recanted: Eruvin 64a
Rav Nachman was termed "Mar [Master]" by Rava: Eruvin 64a
Rava praised Rav Nachman to Rav Sechorah as a great person: Nedarim 22b
Interaction with Other Sages
Rav Nachman calling Rabbah "Abba (father)" out of respect: Pesachim 40a
Rav Nachman calling Shemuel "Mar [Master] Shemuel": Kiddushin 21b; Bava Metzia 15a, 16b
Rav Nachman calling Rav Huna "Huna Chavrin [Our friend]": Bava Metzia 15a; Niddah 16a
Rav Nachman calling Rav Huna "Huna": Eruvin 42b; Bava Metzia 70b
Accused Rav Huna of hiding the fact that a Ruling was not unanimous: Ketuvot 19a
Accused Ulla of waiting until he left, to argue on his Ruling: Bava Kama 12a
R' Chiyya bar Abba and R' Asa and Rava bar Natan learning together, and Rav Nachman listening and approving their words, and saying Shemuel approved their words, too: Eruvin 32b
Rav Nachman chastised Rav Anan for not asking a question on one of Shemuel's teachings, saying "You must have been playing with chips!": Kiddushin 21b
Rav Nachman designed an entranceway [Tzurat haPetach] permitting transport in an alley on behalf of the Exilarch [Reish Galuta]. Rav Sheshet had a different opinion regarding its validity, and he told his assistant, Rav Gada, to remove it. The Exilarch's servants found Rav Gada and imprisoned him. Rav Sheshet stood by the prison gate and said, "Gada, Emerge!" Rav Gada emerged. Rav Sheshet later encountered Rabbah bar Shemuel and asked him whether he had anything to teach regarding entranceways, and Rabbah bar Shemuel taught that such an entrance would be valid. Rav Sheshet responded, "Don't teach that to the Exilarch's household! [I will recant on my own - Rabbeinu Chananel]": Eruvin 11b
Rav Nachman, Rav Chisda and Rav Sheshet were by the Exilarch on the second day of a two-day holiday, and a deer was brought which had been caught on the first day and slaughtered on the second day. Rav Nachman and Rav Chisda ate, reasoning that whichever day was the 'real' holiday, they were fine. Rav Sheshet refrained, holding that the days may be considered part of a single sanctity. Rav Sheshet then encountered Rabbah bar Shemuel and asked whether he had learned anything on the matter. When Rabbah bar Shemuel responded that they are two sanctities, Rav Sheshet said, "Don't tell them anything!" Rav Ashi reported, citing Ameimar, that the case was actually different, and that the last part involving Rabbah bar Shemuel never occurred: Eruvin 39b
Rav Nachman implemented a controversial business deal for the Exilarch, and Rav Yehudah tore up the document. In one version, Rav Nachman respected Rav Yehudah's challenge. In another version, Rav Nachman dismissed Rav Yehudah and all other challengers in financial law as 'children': Bava Metzia 66a
Rav Nachman attempted to find a way to rescind a vow of Rav Sechorah's, and when he was unable he told him, "Go home!" at which point Rav Sechorah used that as the means of rescension of the vow [as he had caused a great man to say that to him with his vow, which was not his initial intention]: Nedarim 22b
Rav Nachman told Rav Chana Bar Bizna to reverse a verdict on which money had been collected, or he would collect it from Rav Chana himself: Bava Kama 12a
Rav Nachman's Citations of Rabbah Bar Avuha citing Rav on what may be done for an infant on Shabbat: Shabbat 129b
Set of comments by Rav Nachman, related to loans and repayment of debt: Bava Metzia 63b
Rav Chisda and Rabbah bar Rav Huna visiting Rav Nachman in a Succah which was valid only according to Rav Nachman, not because they gave in but because, as performers of the Mitzvah of visiting their Rebbe on the holiday, they were exempt from Succah: Succah 10b
Rav Yosef said of Rav Nachman, "He analyzed these verses like Sinai!": Kiddushin 20b
Rav Nachman found Rav Ada bar Ahavah making a blessing on creating his Tzitzit-Fringes, and Rav Nachman made fun of this, saying, "What is this Tzitzi I hear?": Menachot 42a
Rav Nachman preceded a response to Rav Ayna Sava, "Black bread!": Megillah 14b Rami bar Chama's host had a problem with a transaction, and Rami bar Chama sent him to Rav Nachman for a ruling: Bava Metzia 51a
Rav Nachman was stumped [Ishtik] by a scholar named Tavi, who then solved the posed problem with a citation of Rav Sheshet: Temurah 34a
Mar Yehudah saw that Rav Huna bar Yehudah was transporting items on Shabbat in an enclosed, planted area even though it didn't fit Avimi's specifications; Rav Huna bar Yehudah explained that he held with Rav Nachman's view: Eruvin 24a
Statements which Rav Nachman made, citing Rabbah bar Avuha, regarding interruptions between yards which one wishes to merge in order to permit transportation between them on Shabbat: Eruvin 77b-78a Levi learned a lesson from Rav Nachman, and immediately edited his teachings to include it: Bava Metzia 48a-b
