Moed Katon, fol. 9, col. 2.
Rabba, who only studied the law, lived forty years; Abaii, who both studied the law and exercised benevolence, lived sixty.
Rosh Hashanah, fol. 18, col. 1.
The manna which came down upon Israel was sixty ells deep.
Yoma, fol. 76, col. 1.
It is not right for a man to sleep in the daytime any longer than a horse sleeps. And how long is the sleep of a horse? Sixty respirations.
Succah, fol. 26, col. 2.
Abaii says, "When I left Rabbah, I was not at all hungry; but when I arrived at Meree, they served up before me sixty dishes, with as many sorts of viands, and I ate half of each, but as for hotch-potch, which the last dish contained, I ate up all of it, and would fain have eaten up the dish too." Abaii said, "This illustrates the proverb, current among the people, 'The poor man is hungry, and does not know when he has eaten enough; or, there is always room for a tit-bit.'"
Meggillah, fol. 7, col. 2.
There are sixty kinds of wine; the best of all is the red aromatic wine, and bad white wine is the worst.