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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#1791 Bava Basra 157 Chapter 9, Mishna 10, 11 On Shabbos, can person make deathbed bequest orally since he can’t write on Shabbos? Does verbal instruction stand on weekday when he is allowed to write? If one can acquire on …
#1790 Bava Basra 156 Chapter 9, Mishna 8, 9 If surviving brother of man who died without spouse, what age does brother have to be for yibum to be legal? What does “man” mean re: halitza? How old does man …
#1789 Bava Basra 155 Chapter 9, Mishna 8 When is minor capable of giving consent to purchase? What if relevance of whether male is a “saris” mature male. What is relevance of if heir was minor at time of death? …
Chapter 9, Mishna 8 When does burden of proof rest on claimant? What is standard formula for someone making a deathbed gift? When are stringencies of living and dead applied re: a ship going down? What is relevance of “status …
Chapter 9, Mishna 7 What if deed is written on deathbed that says in it that an act of acquisition is also performed? What does “mounting two steeds” mean? Does a gift of person on deathbed take place only after …
#1785 Bava Basra 151 Chapter 9, Mishna 7 When can woman reclaim property she brought into marriage? What if woman dies and both sons claim mother gifted them property on her deathbed? What is relevance of time of day gift …
#1784 Bava Basra 150 Chapter 9, Mishna 7 Are millstones considered movable or non-movable property and what is relevance? Is Canaanite slave considered real property or movable property? If man leaves almost all his property to Canaanite slave, is slave …
Chapter 9, Mishna 7 When can a deathbed bequest made before dying man’s surprise recovery be retracted? What if he gives away “everything” and there’s property he owns that he doesn’t know about? Can man on deathbed give everything then …
#1781-1782 Bava Basra 147-148 Chapter 9, Mishna 7 Is the gift of a person on his deathbed acquired by the recipient if no formal act of acquisition (kinyan) is performed? If so, is this matter by Torah law or rabbinic …
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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