Labelled a "Non-Learned Youth": Pesachim 35a
Labelling "Pappa Bar Abba" [not himself; see Shabbat 119a] as a "Ba'al Bassar - Person of Flesh": Bava Kama 10b
Credited his dealings in liquor as the cause of his wealth: Pesachim 113a
Credited his marriage to a Kohenet as the cause of his wealth: Pesachim 49a
Rav Pappa was rich: Pesachim 111b
Said that he was someone who people falsely suspected of wrong-doing: Shabbat 118b, Moed Katan 18b
Rav Pappa prepared the wicks of the candles for Shabbat himself: Shabbat 119a
Creating an acronym to remember learning: Succah 55a
Rav Pappa presenting his own opinion, as well as the way in which his opponent would have dealt with a specific problem: Kiddushin 9b
Rav Pappa would not pray in a house which held strong-smelling liquor, due to the distraction: Eruvin 65a
Rav Pappa [a vintner] commenting on wine-marketing practices: Bava Metzia 60a, 65a
Anecdotes
Speaking with Yosef Shaida on the relative dangers of various Magical Zugot: Pesachim 110a
Rav Pappa and an attempted framing by a non-Jewish woman for her son's death: Berachot 8b, Pesachim 112b
Designing trickery to get a man to do Chalitzah-Rite severing the bond for levirate marriage, and Parents Dying from a resultant Evil Eye by Abayye: Yevamot 106a
Rav Pappa in the Synagogue in Abi Gober: Megillah 21b
Rav Pappa's host's question regarding using an egg laid on Shabbat, on the following day which is Yom Tov: Beitzah 4a-b
How two kutim handled the breakup of a manager/investor partnership, and Rav Pappa's rulings for them: Bava Metzia 69a-b
Rav Pappa 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 81a-b
Anecdotes Involving other Sages
Rav Pappa was called "Sodani" [1) Torah Scholar, or 2) maker of intoxicating beverages] by Rava: Menachot 71a; Niddah 12b [and see Pesachim 113a]
Called "Yatom [Orphan]" by Abayye: (See Rashi) Ketuvot 17b
Abayye placed Rav Pappa in the path of a "Ketev Meriri" Spirit instead of Rav Huna Beraih DeRav Yehoshua, because Rav Pappa was rich and had better Mazal: Pesachim 111b
Rav Pappa, Rav Huna bereih deRabbi Yehoshua and Rava bar Shemuel sitting at a meal together and discussing who was pure enough to lead for the blessing: Berachot 22b
Rejecting a text-changing answer of Rava: Pesachim 46a
Was known to study the extra-legal lessons of Rav Chisda and Rabbah Beraih DeRav Huna: Shabbat 89a
Rabbah bar Rav Huna found Rav Pappa's father's donkey, and then tricked his character witnesses into saying that he Was a Cheater; returned the donkey in the end: Bava Metzia 28b
Rav Huna Beraih DeR' Yehoshua was Visited by Rav Pappa by when he appeared to be dying, and Rav Pappa ordered burial shrouds made, and then he survived: Rosh HaShanah 17a
Rav Pappa and Rav Huna Bereih deR' Yehoshua explaining a law when they came from the school of Rav: Eruvin 12a
Rava was once serving Rav Pappa, Rav Huna beraih deRav Yehoshua, Rav Mari and Rav Pinchas beraih deRav Chisda, and only the former two stood up in respect for him, leading him to get upset at the latter two for acting as though they were greater than the former two: Kiddushin 32b
Rav Pappa assigning ownership of his 12,000 dinar to Rav Shemuel bar Acha when Rav Shemuel bar Acha went to Bei Chozai to collect them on his behalf: Bava Metzia 46a
Rav Pappa responding jocularly to a question from Rav Mari: Berachot 24a
Rav Pappa served R' Yitzchak beraih deRav Yehudah at Rav Pappa's son's wedding, and he didn't rise for Rav Pappa, upsetting Rav Pappa: Kiddushin 32b
Rami bar Abba had a legal question, and took it to Rav Pappa who forbade it, and then to Rav Huna beraih deR' Yehoshua, who forbade it as well: Megillah 26b
Rav Kahana asking a question, regarding certain personal legal customs, of the schools of Rav Pappa and of Rav Huna beraih deR' Yehoshua: Niddah 12b
The Exilarch asked Rav Huna bar Chinina to fix up a shady area in such a way that it would be usable for Shabbat. Rav Huna bar Chinina made arrangements, which Rava took apart, as he felt they were unnecessary. Rav Pappa and Rav Huna bereih deRav Yehoshua removed the materials, so that Rav Huna bar Chinina could not re-establish his arrangement, but they then realized on Shabbat that he had been correct. The Exilarch cited a verse regarding Rav Pappa and Rav Huna bereih deRav Yehoshua - "They are wise to perform evil, but they don't know how to do good": Eruvin 25b-26a
Rav Mesharshiya sent his son to ask a question regarding a law's detail; Rav Pappa prefaced his response to the son, 'If we would be so careful to include such details when teaching, we would never teach at all!': Eruvin 48a
Rav Pappa described his own generation as far more learned than that of Rav Yehudah, but noted that when Rav Yehudah took off a shoe it rained, and Rav Pappa cried and beseeched Gd for rain, nothing came: Berachot 20a
What happened when Rav Huna bar Manoach, Rav Shemuel bar Idi and Rav Chiyya of Vistanya came to study with Rav Pappa after their teacher Rava died, and they were dissatisfied with Rav Pappa's lessons: Taanit 9a-b
Rav Simi bar Ashi's decision to stop besieging his teacher, Rav Pappa, with questions, when he saw the embarrassing effect on Rav Pappa: Taanit 9b
Rava answering a question of Rav Pappa with the introduction, "Were I dead, I couldn't have told you this.": Bava Metzia 73b
Raveina saying to Rav Pappa: You weren't there last night in Bei Chermach, when Rava posed very good questions between opposing sources, and resolved them: Zevachim 2b-3a
Personal Practices
Blessings at the arranged marriage of his son "Abba Mar": Ketuvot 8a
Rab Pappa's son, Abba Mar, accepted payments from people in exchange for arranging loans from his father: Bava Metzia 69b
Whipped a man who testified alone against another, because his testimony causes nothing but a bad reputation: Pesachim 113b
Ate New Produce outside of Israel on the 16th of Nisan at night, without concern that it may really be the 16th: Menachot 68b
Removing seeds of dates which were too good for fodder, by throwing them beneath the couch he was sitting on: Shabbat 143a
Established a fast day for rain, and then organized a Hallel Prayer after rain fell, without waiting for people to go home to eat: Taanit 26a
Refused to ex-communicate a Torah Scholar, whipping him instead: Moed Katan 17a
Rav Pappa allowed a bill written in a Persian Court, by calling in two separate Kutim to read it to him, unaware of the ramifications of their testimony: Gittin 19b
Rav Pappa refused to present a legal ruling on Yom Tov, because of concern for the effects of intoxication. The next day he said that had he ruled in that state, he would indeed have erred: Beitzah 4a-b
Rav Pappa's "tarsha" means of selling wine without violating laws prohibiting interest: Bava Metzia 65a, 68a
