AT Daily!🛎️AT Daily! is Sal’s live show (Facebook and YouTube at Accidental Talmudist) based on the Daf Yomi cycle of Talmud study. The cycle began on January 5, 2020 and with God’s help, Sal will elucidate every page of the Talmud (2,711pp) over the next seven and a half years!
If you’re new to Talmud study, Key Dafs are a good place to start (scroll down.) Key Dafs feature fascinating Sage stories and explanations of important concepts.
Sal generally goes live on Facebook and YouTube at 6pm Sunday-Thursday, 11:30 am Friday and about an hour after Shabbat ends every Saturday. For Jewish holidays, same schedule as Shabbat. All times Pacific.
The Talmud is a vast reservoir of Jewish wisdom based on the oral tradition which stretches back to the Revelation at Mount Sinai, when God appeared to two million Jews and transmitted the Ten Commandments, the Written Torah and the Oral Torah.
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Chapter 5, Mishna 8 How much wine that used as a libation can fall into permitted wine before the mixture becomes prohibited?How does this differ if we’re mixing wine and water?How does this differ if we’re talking about sacred produce …
Chapter 5, Mishna 4, 5, 6, 7 If a gential army occupies a Jewish city, do we assume they poured the Jews’ wine as a libation and render it prohibited?If a gentile sent wine to a Jewish craftsman as his …
Chapter 5, Mishna 3 A series of incidents in which an idolator is found among barrels of wine belonging to Jews – does the wine become prohibited?How does this relate to the laws of ritual purity when an ignoramus has …
Chapter 5, Mishna 3 Should we be suspicious of gentile who has access to a Jew’s wine?To what extent are there mixed concerns?What is relevance of how far away the Jew went, and for how long while gentile has access …
Chapter 5, Mishna 2 What if forbidden food at first enhanced the flavor of permitted food, but then detracted from flavor?What sacred and nonsacred leaven fell into dough?What if forbidden vinegar fell into beans?What if mouse fell into barrel of …
Chapter 5, Mishna 2 Can a Jew smell wine used in idolatry?If gentile smells a Jew’s wine, is the wine forbidden?Is smell a form of consumption?Is bread prohibited to non-priest because it has absorbed flavor of cumin being burned?What is …
Chapter 5, Mishna 1, 2 When can Jewish laborer keep wages from working for idolator?Why is it different if it’s “toward evening” re when he worked with prohibited substance?Can a Jew rent out his donkey to transport something for idolatry?Can …
Chapter 5, Mishna 1 If gentile hired Jew to break barrels of wine used for idolatry, can the jew keep his wage?Can a Jew plant wheat (diverse kinds) in a gentile’s vineyard?Can a Jew uproot wheat in a gentile’s vineyard?Does …
Key Dafs
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Chapter 6, Mishna 1 When defendant comes to swear an oath, what is the procedure involved?When one swears an oath before court, can it be in their own language (ie not Hebrew)?Even if one atones for taking name of God …
Chapter 7, Mishna 1Topics covered:How did Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish meet?When a knife or sword is being fabricated, when is it considered to be finished?How could R’ Yochanan publicly mention Resh Lakish’s past as a bandit ?Why was R’ …
Chapter 4, Mishna 8Topics covered:What is exploitation in words?What is verbal mistreatment?Why should we not be like friends of Job?How is penalty for verbal mistreatment different from one for monetary mistreatment?Who are the three who don’t ascend from gehinna?What are …
Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 7 It is good to find a good spouse – many wisdom teachings today about creating and sustaining a good marriage! Also, on the importance to raising children with good values. #Judaism #halacha #Torah …
Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 6, 7 The lamentation of women is so powerful that it must be limited when a funeral occurs during a festival. Colorful stories of Sages who confronted the Angel of Death. Some of them reported …
Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 13 Where 48 prophets and seven prophetesses failed, the Jew-hater Haman succeeded. Why?! The seven prophetesses of Israel: Sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Hannah, Avigail, Huldah and Esther. Help us build the A.T. App in Memory of …
Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 3, 4, 5 How did the Book of Esther get incorporated into the Bible? Is it as sacred as other books in the Bible? How do we know that it was Divinely inspired? How does …
Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 1 A story for the ages, literally! Honi the Circle-maker was a saintly miracle worker who nagged God on behalf of others. All his life he was puzzled by a verse from Psalms that compares …
Load More Key DafsThe Talmud’s core is the Mishnah, written around 200 CE during a Roman persecution so intense that our sage Rabbi Yehuda the Prince feared the Oral Torah would be lost if not set down. The Mishnah is terse and coded, and thus requires interpretation and elucidation in order to be understood. The next layer of commentary was the Gemara, added around 500 CE in the Jewish community of Babylonia, where the centers of learning moved to escape Roman persecution. The Mishnah plus the Gemara equals the Talmud, but the oral tradition never stopped moving forward, with commentaries added in ever century since.
Now Salvador Litvak will attempt to add his own commentary via 40-60 minute live show every day for seven and half years. Sal generally goes live on Facebook and YouTube at 6pm Sunday-Thursday, 11:30 am Friday and about an hour after Shabbat ends every Saturday. For Jewish holidays, same schedule as Shabbat. All times Pacific.
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