R' Eliezer's wife, Eima Shalom, explaining why her children were so beautiful: Nedarim 20a-b
R' Eliezer's wife was the sister of Rabban Gamliel ben R' Shimon: Niddah 8b
Anecdotes and Characteristics
Using an oath "Brit!" [By the Covenant!]: Pesachim 38b
R' Eliezer's manner during sexual relations: Nedarim 20a-b
R' Eliezer answering a set of public questions on a holiday: Succah 28a
Someone began reading a section on the punishments against the Jews for the special reading from the Prophets; R' Eliezer told him to check himself first, and when they checked, they found a "disqualification" in him: Megillah 25b
Telling his students to repent daily, lest that be their last day: Shabbat 153a
R' Eliezer and the debate over purifying a "tanur shel achnai": Berachot 19a; Bava Metzia 59a-b
Whether R' Eliezer was ex-communicated: Berachot 19a; Shabbat 130b; Bava Metzia 59b; Niddah 7b [acc. to Rashi]
R' Eliezer answering questions from Agrippas's aide, on the aide's obligation in the Mitzvah of Succah: Succah 27a
The fruit of his vineyard, east of Lud: Rosh HaShanah 31b; Beitzah 5a-b
What R' Eliezer did with the Synagogue he purchased: Megillah 26a
A certain law was practiced like R' Yehoshua while R' Eliezer was alive, as R' Yehoshua wanted to keep people from errantly following R' Eliezer for other things, but after his death R' Yehoshua returned the practice to that advocated by R' Eliezer: Niddah 7b
One of R' Eliezer's students learned Torah silently, and forgot his learning after three years: Eruvin 54a
R' Eliezer had a student who became liable for burning in Heaven; they decided to leave him be, because he served a great man: Eruvin 54a
R' Eliezer had a student named Yehudah ben Guria who issued a legal ruling before him. R' Eliezer told his wife, Eima Shalom, that he didn't think Yehudah ben Guria would live out the year, and that was what happened. R' Eliezer said this was not prophecy; it was the law.: Eruvin 63a
A Divine Voice supporting the legal ruling of Rabbi Eliezer: Bava Metzia 59b
R' Akiva's fear that R' Eliezer's anger, if he was improperly informed of his ex-communication, might cause the destruction of the world: Bava Metzia 59b
R' Eliezer bowing his head for the tachanun prayer: Bava Metzia 59b
Interactions with other Sages
R' Eliezer referring to Rebbe's study hall as a mini-Temple: Megillah 29a
Rebbe saying of R' Eliezer, after having practiced a law like him without remembering his view was a minority view, "He is great enough that we can depend on him, against the majority, in time of need.": Eruvin 46a; Niddah 6a-b, 9b
Calling R' Yehoshua by his first name in a debate: Pesachim 65b; Kiddushin 32b
Calling R' Akiva by his first name in a debate; R' Akiva called R' Eliezer "Rebbe": Pesachim 66a
R' Eliezer visited R' Yosi ben Pereida, his student, and instructed him to change the construction of an alley in which they wanted to transport items. When R' Yosi ben Pereida protested, "Need it be sealed?" he responded "So what if it's sealed?": Eruvin 11b-12a
R' Eliezer as a "friend" or student of R' Yochanan ben Zakkai: Beitzah 5b; Rosh HaShanah 31b; Succah 28a Onkelostranslated the Torah into Aramaic, transcribing from the words of R' Eliezer and R' Yehoshua: Megillah 3a
R' Ilai travelling to visit R' Eliezer on Succot: Succah 27b
R' Eliezer calling R' Ilai "Ilai": Succah 27b
R' Ilai recording a set of laws he learned from R' Eliezer: Eruvin 23a
R' Eliezer said to R' Yehoshua, "You haven't heard as much as I have, so you can't declare what the law is!": Niddah 7b
Rabban Gamliel tried to serve R' Eliezer, R' Yehoshua and R' Tzaddok at Rabban Gamliel's son's wedding. R' Eliezer refused to be served, but R' Yehoshua and R' Tzaddok pointed to Avraham's and Gd's service of others, respectively, as models for the greater serving the lesser: Kiddushin 32b
Rava commenting on an argument by R' Eliezer: "With this, R' Eliezer merited over the Sages!": Kiddushin 18a
A debate between R' Eliezer and the collective "Sages": Niddah 13a
R' Yehudah ben Gadish testifying before R' Eliezer regarding what his parents purchased with their Secondary Tithe, and R' Eliezer questioning his memory: Eruvin 27a
Rav Mari explained that a statement of R' Eliezer was a guzma, an exaggeration intended to prove a point: Beitzah 4a
Rabbi Yehoshua standing against Rabbi Eliezer despite Divine support for Rabbi Eliezer: Bava Metzia 59b R' Akiva informing R' Eliezer of his ex-communication: Bava Metzia 59b Rabban Gamliel's fatal punishment for ex-communicating R' Eliezer, a punishment he suffered despite the best efforts of Eima Shalom - Rabban Gamliel's sister and R' Eliezer's wife: Bava Metzia 59b
R' Eliezer and R' Yehoshua, students of R' Yochanan ben Zakkai, carrying him out of Jerusalem to the Roman general Vespasian: Gittin 56a
R' Eliezer's Legal Practices
R' Eliezer Relating only his Rebbe's teachings: Yoma 66b; Succah 27b-28a
Refused to accept Consolation of Mourners for the death of his Canaanite Maid: Berachot 16b
R' Eliezer staying in the Succah-hut of Yochanan beR' Ilai on the holiday; when asked whether to cover part of the Succah for shade, R' Eliezer refused to answer directly, for fear of saying something which he hadn't heard from his Rebbe: Succah 27b
His town practiced like him in preparing items for Mitzvos which Supersede Shabbat, against the majority view: Shabbat 130a
A town which practiced like him in preparing items for Circumcision was rewarded by a lack of people dying young and by exemption from a government rule prohibiting Circumcision: Shabbat 130a
R' Yochanan ben Zakkai only told the students to leave the Study Hall on the eve of Pesach and the eve of Yom Kippur, and R' Eliezer [his student] followed this custom as well: Succah 28a
R' Eliezer was careful to arrive first to, and leave last from, the Study Hall, to not sleep in the Study Hall, and to not speak empty speech: Succah 28a
R' Eliezer followed the House of Shammai: Shabbat 130b [Rashi citing Jerusalem Talmud]
Conflict with R' Yehoshua as to when to flip over the beds in mourning for Rabban Gamliel: Moed Katan 27a
R' Eliezer publically shaved on a fast day which had been decreed on Chanukah: Rosh HaShanah 18b
Set of laws which are decided like R' Eliezer: Niddah 7b-8b
Two sages disagreeing as to what R' Eliezer said: Berachot 3a; Eruvin 30a
