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, 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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Chapter 7, Mishna 4 What is significance of “until 1/6” re: whether refund goes to buyer? When does sale stand? Is precisely 1/6 likened to more than 1/6 or less than 1/6? What is like a sale of orphan’s property? …
Chapter 7, Mishna 3 What is legal difference between “precise” and “more or less” of a beis kor? What if there are contradictory stipulations when selling land? What is relevance of renting land in a leap year? When do parties …
Chapter 7, Mishna 2 If a purchaser received more or less land than he agreed to buy, what is the law? What do we learn from the mishna’s two cases about a precise beis kor of land, and a beis …
Chapter 7, Mishna 1 What is a beis kor? Why are rocks and crevices in a field treated differently than other areas? What does it mean to consecrate your field? How to redeem ancestral fields that have been consecrated? What …
Chapter 6, Mishna 8 If one sells land for a catacomb or contracts to have one created, what is size range of catacomb? How many burial niches and how are they positioned/accessed? How many niches per chamber? How many chambers …
Chapter 6, Mishna 7 If a field owner provides a second thoroughfare for public, can people use both of them? Why should people be allowed to appropriate land from a private owner? Can owner destroy the public thoroughfare if he …
Chapter 6, Mishna 4, 5, 6, 7 What size were cherubs/statues of angels in the Temple? Why does it say 30 cubits tall in one verse and 20 cubits in another? What is the verse teaching us by considering only …
Chapter 6, Mishna 3, 4 When is seller responsible to provide better wine than the inferior wine he sold? When does seller bear responsibility when wine sours? Does it matter if which jug it soured in? Why is cooking wine …
Chapter 6, Mishna 2 What quality of wine can/can’t one say kiddush on? What wine is fit to bring as a libation? If wine that is not fit is brought as a libation, is it disqualified? Can one squeeze juice …
Key Dafs
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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 …
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 …
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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