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 3, Mishna 6 Can stones from mountain that was worshipped be used to build altar in the Holy Temple?Can an animal that was worshipped be used for sacrifice?Can we benefit from it in other ways?Can an animal be used …
Chapter 3, Mishna 6 Is it prohibited to derive benefit from mountains/hills that were used for idolatry?If hills were covered in gold as part of idolatrous worship, can Jews benefit from that gold?For what reason is an asheira forbidden?Does the …
Chapter 3, Mishna 3, 4, 5 Is it permitted to fashion image of servant of God?Can Jewish artists paint a figure of a human being?What about a sculpture of a human being?What does it mean “you shall not make gods …
Chapter 3, Mishna 2, 3 Does a Jew have the ability to remove an idol from realm of idolatry?If tree is worshipped by idolators, can benefit be derived from leaves that fall from it?What about a birds nest in the …
Chapter 3, Mishna 1 Are all statues forbidden for benefit to a Jew?What are the three things held by the statue that makes it prohibited to benefit from?Does it matter where the statue is?Why can one derive benefit from statue …
Chapter 2, Mishna 6 What is considered tarit that has not been minced?What is considered brine that has fish in it?Why is it necessary to see the head and spine of fish for it to be permitted?Can one dip foods …
Chapter 2, Mishna 5, 6 Is it permitted to purchase hiltit from a gentile?What if it’s the Canaanite slave of a sage?What is a chaver in a Talmudic context?What is relevance of snail that creates techeilis (blue thread) in tzitzis?Who …
Chapter 2, Mishna 5 Can Jews eat food cooked by idolators?What if meat is cooked by combination of non-Jew and Jew?What is relevance of expediting cooking?What is the cooking of ben Dorosai?How much does meat have to be cooked to …
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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