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🛎️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.

  • Topics covered:Chapter 1, Mishna 7What if man writes a gett in Nisan but gives it to wife in Tishrei?When is repossession of property unlawful?When is bill of manumission returned to slave? Owner?How is bill of manumission like/unlike a gett?What is …

  • Topics covered:Chapter 1, Mishna 6, 7Can a gett serve as a marriage contract for wife to collect payment?Why would a gett be torn up?When does one give a found document to the intended recipient?What if a gett is found but …

  • Chapter 1, Mishna 6 If there’s no ratification in promissory note, should it be returned? If a debtor doesn’t pay a debt, is he always considered one who doesn’t pay his debts? What if someone can’t remember if he paid …

  • Topics covered:Chapter 1, Mishna 6What is relevance of robber’s intention? What if someone sells stolen land but then gets rights to it? How does this happen? What is robbery victim gives land as gift to robber? Does gift have same …

  • Topics covered:Chapter 1, Mishna 6What are rights of one who buys land from a robber and enhances it? What part of robber’s property can be used to reimburse purchaser? When is reimbursing buyer considered charging interest? When can creditor collect …

  • Topics covered:Chapter 1, Mishna 6Can debt be collected from liened property even if promissory note isn’t secured by land? What happens if property is seized from buyer by seller’s creditor? How much and from what source will he be paid? …

  • Topics covered:Chapter 1, Mishna 6What should one do if he finds a promissory note? When do and don’t we return promissory notes to creditor? What is relevance of property guarantee? What is relevance of date on found promissory note? What …

  • Topics covered:Chapter 1, Mishna 4, 5If giver throws purse through window and it goes out back window and lands in public domain, does the homeowner acquire the purse? What is status of an item in the airspace of a courtyard …

  • Topics covered:Chapter 1, Mishna 4If ownerless deer goes into someone’s field, does the owner of field acquire the animal? What are conditions for acquiring ownership for item in courtyard or field? What are laws of forgotten sheaves? What defines a …

Key Dafs

  • 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 …

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The 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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