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!
Sal generally goes live on Facebook and YouTube at 6pm Sunday-Thursday, 12pm 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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Topics covered:Chapter 7, Mishna 2Regarding tumah decreed upon the lands of nations, Sages initially decreed ritual impurity on earth of the lands, if you touch the soil or cause it to move. Later they extended decree to airspace. Relevant to …
Topics covered:Chapter 7, Mishna 2, 3How do we know that a corpse transmits tumah – ritual impurity – to one who walks over its grave. Why are there some sources of corpse impurity that do not trigger the nazir’s obligation …
Topics covered:Chapter 7, Mishna 2What is the minimum size for a bone from a corpse to impart impurity of a corpse (thus triggering a nazir to shave, bring offerings and restart his term) through touching? Carrying? Sharing a roof (tent)? …
Topics covered:Chapter 7, Mishna 2On the subject of whether a partial corpse imparts ritual impurity, we ask whether eating a small but partial creeping thing triggers liability like eating an entire ant? Does the spine or skull of a human …
Topics covered:Chapter 7, Mishna 2If two bodies are buried together and dust is mixed (or with wood dust, or shroud dust) then it doesn’t impart impurity. What is considered part of corpse that imparts impurity? Teeth, hair and nails don’t …
Topics covered:Chapter 7, Mishna 2What counts as a corpse? What if flesh of a corpse has liquefied in a hot place? Do spittle and urine found on a corpse impart ritual impurity? Does liquid from animal corpse convey impurity? Lifting …
Topics covered: Chapter 7, Mishna 1, 2 If nazir and kohen find meis mitzvah, who buries the body? Majority say nazir should do it because sanctity of high priest is permanent versus nazir sanctity is temporary. They don’t become impure …
Topics covered:Chapter 7, Mishna 1How do we know that a nazir, who may not become impure for the dead, even to bury his father, does become impure to bury an unattended corpse? How do we know that he is permitted …
Topics covered:Chapter 6, Mishna 12, Chapter 7, Mishna 1Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus is an inspiring story of desire to learn Torah in spite of great difficulties. He disagrees with the majority re the offerings of a nazir who becomes impure …
Key Dafs
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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 …
Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 1 The memorable Tale of Rabbi Elazar and The Ugly Man. “Go to Uman.” Don’t stand under a shaky wall, i.e. don’t place yourself in danger where you might need a life-saving miracle, and the …
Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 2 Rainfall is equivalent to the resurrection of the dead. Torah scholars sharpen each other. Rabbi Chanina said, I have learned much from my teachers and more from my friends, but I have learned the …
Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 2 Another Key Daf! We’ll be divided into three groups on the Day of Judgment. God tips the scales for most people in their favor because He is merciful, but there will be an accounting …
Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 2 Key Daf! Four times a year we’re judged for different purposes. Some say every day, some say every hour. How does Rosh Hashana connect to Yom Kippur? Which actions will cause us to be judged …
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, 12pm Friday and about an hour after Shabbat ends every Saturday. For Jewish holidays, same schedule as Shabbat. All times Pacific.
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