The scholar Judith Hauptman suggests that Yalta was also the daughter of the Jewish exilarch in Babylon and considers her depiction in rabbinic literature as a strong-willed, free-spirited woman.
[1][2][3] Yalta is the second most-mentioned woman in the Talmud, after the daughter of Rav Chisda,[4] and appears to have been knowledgeable in matters of Jewish ritual law.
[5] Yalta, wife of Rav Nachman, appears in the Babylonian Talmud in a number of instances.
In Tractate Berakhot (51b), Yalta is described as breaking four hundred jugs of wine after a guest offended her and womankind in general.
In Tractate Chullin (109b), Yalta asks her husband for a kosher food that would taste the equivalent of meat cooked in milk, he complies by having udders prepared for her.