Gittin 68A

איגניב לן כסא דכספא! בהדי דקא מעייני ואתו, אשכחוה דכרוכה בסודריה.

A silver cup was stolen from us, and they searched everyone for it. When they were checking they found the piece of meat wrapped in his scarf.

אמרי ליה: חזי מר, דלא מיכל קא בעי ⁠– אלא לצעורן! אמר להו: אנא מיכל אכלי, וטעמי ביה טעמא דחיורא. אמרי ליה: חיורא לא עביד לן האידנא. אמר להו: בדקו בדוכתיה; דאמר רב חסדא: אוכמא בחיורא, וחיורא באוכמתא ⁠– לקותא היא. בדוק אשכחוה.

The Exilarch’s servants said to the Exilarch: See Master, i.e., the Exilarch, Rav Sheshet does not desire to eat, rather he wishes only to afflict us. Even after everything that was done for him he did not eat from the Exilarch’s meal. Rav Sheshet said to them: I ate and I tasted the taste of white leprous spots in the meat and therefore I did not eat it. They said to the Exilarch: We did not prepare an animal with white spots today. Rav Sheshet said to them: Check the skin in the place of the portion that I was given. He issued this instruction in accordance with the statement of Rav Ḥisda, as Rav Ḥisda said: Black spots within white skin and white spots within black skin are an affliction and a sign of disease. They checked and found that the animal was afflicted in this manner, and the Exilarch’s servants became even angrier with him.

כי קא נפיק, כרו ליה בירא ושדו ליה ציפתא עילויה, ואמרי ליה: ליתי מר לינח. נחר ליה רב חסדא מאחוריה. אמר ליה לינוקא: פסוק לי פסוקיך, אמר ליה: ״נטה לך על ימינך או על שמאלך״. אמר ליה לשמעיה: מאי קא חזית? אמר ליה: ציפיתא דשדיא. אמר ליה: הדר מינה.

When Rav Sheshet was exiting the house of the Exilarch the servants dug a pit and placed a reed mat [tzifta] on top of it so that the pit would not be noticed. And they said to Rav Sheshet: The Master, i.e., Rav Sheshet, should come and rest for a short time, and they intended for him to fall and be hurt. Rav Ḥisda, who was also present, snorted [neḥar] to him from behind in order to signal to him. Rav Sheshet said to a child who was there: Recite your verse for me that you studied today. The child said to him: “Turn to your right or to your left” (II Samuel 2:21). Rav Sheshet, who was blind, said to his servant: What do you see? His servant said to him: I see a mat that has been placed on the ground. Rav Sheshet said to him: Turn away from it and we will go around it.