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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Chapter 3, Mishna 1Topics covered:Two people claim to own the same piece of land because 1) my ancestors owned it, 2) I inherited from my ancestors and 3) I”ve been loving there for over three years.If they each have two …
Chapter 3, Mishna 1Topics covered:Is burden of proof on the one who claims ownership or the one whose lived there three years?How to determine who has authority to sell field?If claimant shows up and says, what are you doing on …
Chapter 3, Mishna 1Topics covered:What is legal difference between irrigated and non-irrigated field?Are three harvests sufficient to establish presumption of ownership?When a piece of land is claimed validly and returned to its owner, is produce also returned?When does owner need …
Chapter 2, Mishna 13, 14, Chapter 3, Mishna 1Topics covered:What if tree leans over onto neighbor’s field or public domain?When may one cut a tree that is partially in public domain? When must one cut the tree?How can overhanging branches …
Chapter 2, Mishna 12Topics covered:How far from neighbor’s field does a tree need to be planted?Why is rule different in EY and Bavel?What is necessary distance between palm tree and vines?Should a productive fruit tree ever be cut down?Who has …
Chapter 2, Mishna 10, 11Topics covered:Where can and can’t one establish a tannery?What is relevant of “frequent” re: winds/tannery?What does it mean that G-d’s presence is in the west or the east? Isn’t G-d everywhere?How are winds different that come …
Chapter 2, Mishna 7, 8, 9Topics covered:If dove chick is found between 2 dovecotes, who owns it?When does majority take precedence over proximity?What if unknown corpse is found between two towns?What is relevance of bird/creature that hops?What is relevance of …
Chapter 2, Mishna 3, 4, 5, 6Topics covered:Can outsiders sell wares in town every day or only on market day?What courtesy is extended to Torah scholars?How to determine if stranger is Torah scholar?What did Adda bar Abba do wrong re: …
Chapter 2, Mishna 3Topics covered:When do you have a right to ask neighbor to keep quieter?Can one prevent neighbor from opening store in courtyard?How does orphan learn without father to teach him Torah?What was Yehoshua ben Gamla’s proclamation re education?Can …
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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