Pumbedita

And therefore, you don't have to give it to him.

He repeated this in Pumbedita, this whole back and forth.

He said, the only reason you think so, think that we don't force him to give him the coin is because we're not sure if he swapped it.

So you're going to tell me, that if we knew that the guy had swapped them, that for sure everybody would agree you have to give it to the coin, and Rosh Hashanah was just saying, we don't know that he swapped them.

There's a whole cycle of learning that involved, you know, learning for the permanent full-time students, learning for the teachers' professional development, and even twice a year, the famous Reish Kalas, where it was open to, you know, everyone in Bavel could come, at least men at any rate for sure, could come and learn Gemara in, uh, in that twice-yearly session called the Reish Kala.

So this gives us some sense of how it would have functioned probably between the 3rd and maybe the 10th century in the great academies of Sura, Pumbedita, Neharda, and Mekoza.

It appears to be fairly common across all of these, uh, versions of, uh, of the academies.

And, um, yeah, I guess that illu- I hope that illuminated your Daf, and I wish you Hatzlacha in your learning.

It's because he saw a beautiful tallis on you and he wants to steal it.

Pumbedita laviyach ashnei urspizach.

If, if somebody from Pu-Pumbedita accompanies you, he saw your money and therefore change where you-- your hotel room because he's going to come and steal your money during the night.

Okay, now we mentioned this aravad before, which was a...

It's a crossbreed of a snake and a tzav.

Different members of the family wrote different parts.

So the minhag Vishtei Yeshivas in Bava, in Sura and Pumbedisa, minhag was, after Malchiyut and Chazarat HaShatz, they would blow Tashrat once.

After Zichronot, they would blow Tashat once, and after Shofars, they would blow Tarat once.

So the question is, it doesn't make any sense.

So it's only because they think that you're a rich person.

If a person from Pumbedisa accompanies you on the road, so he has his eyes on your money, you better change which hotel you're going to stay in that night.

Because if you struck up a conversation with him and you told him where you were staying, he plans on finding you and stealing from you.

So these are the bad people.

Here is what happened next.

In an effort to evade the question, Raba bar Rav Huna distracted Rav Avia the Elder and said to him, "Look, a raven flies in the sky." Rava, son of Raba bar Rav Huna, said to his father, "But isn't this Rav Avia the Elder of Pumpedita, whom the master would praise to us, saying that he is a great man? If so, why did you treat him in that manner and evade his question?" Raba bar Rav Huna said to him, "Today, I am in a state best described by the verse, 'Let me lean against the stout trunks.

Let me couch among the apple trees,' Song of Songs, meaning I'm tired, and he asked me about a matter that requires reasoning and careful examination, and therefore, I could not provide an immediate answer." Whoa.

On the surface, you could read this story and find Raba bar Rav Huna, well, to be one rude dude.