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 1, Mishna 7, 8 Does the moment the animal dies determine validity of slaughter?Can a jagged slaughter still be valid?Is slaughter valid if improper cutting occurs between proper cuts?Is cutting through a perforated area during slaughter valid?Is slaughter valid …
Chapter 1, Mishna 6, 7 Can a serrated sickle be used for valid slaughter?Does Beit Hillel permit eating an animal slaughtered with a serrated sickle?Is slaughter valid only in the large upper ring and not the other rings of the …
Chapter 1, Mishna 5 What if someone embedded a knife in wall and used it to slaughter?What is the relevance if it’s above or below the animal’s neck?Can one may slaughter with any object that cuts?Is there a difference between …
Chapter 1, Mishna 4, 5 Can one eat meat schechted on Shabbos by another person?Does it matter if it was slaughtered unwittingly or intentionally?Can one who cooked unwittingly on Shabbos eat that food on Shabbos?Is it relevant if was cooked …
Chapter 1, Mishna 4 Are broken vessel shards usable on Shabbos?Must an item be prepared before Shabbat to be usable?Is slaughtered meat on Shabbat considered newly created or already designated food?Is meat from an animal slaughtered on Shabbat considered permitted?Does …
Chapter 1, Mishna 1-4 Can a minor’s actions show valid intent?Can a minor, deaf mute, or imbecile have valid intent?Is a minor’s intent valid by Torah law or rabbinic law?Can a minor perform a halakhically valid action?Is a minor’s action …
Chapter 1, Mishna 1 From where is the rule to follow the majority derived?Do we clearly follow the majority when the majority is directly visible and countable?Do we follow a majority that is assumed but not directly countable?What is the …
Chapter 1, Mishna 1 What if animal is slaughtered with knife that turns out to not be smooth?What if it’s not clear if knife had been non-smooth before the slaughter?What is presumptive status of any animal?How is status of animal …
Key Dafs
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Chapter 11, Mishna 3, 4, 5, 6 From where is the rule derived that one may elevate an item to a higher level of sanctity, but not downgrade?Why are the broken tablets also kept in the Ark?Can interrupting Torah study …
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 …
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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