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, 11:30 am 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 1, Mishna 1 What does priest do when someone brings meal offering to Temple?How was meal offering of a sinner different than other meal offerings?What is a sin offering brought for?What is difference between meal offering brought “not for …
Chapter 14, Mishna 1 On which altars is there a requirement for a vertical partition?What if offerings were started on private altar and then presented on public altar?What is law of waving breast and thigh and terumah of thanks offering?What …
Chapter 14, Mishna 1 What is relevance of “rest and inheritance” to Shiloh and Jerusalem?What rest was there in the Temple in Jerusalem?What is relevance of Samson story?How could Samson’s father bring sacrifice on private altar?What if offering is consecrated …
Chapter 14, Mishna 1 Where could peace offerings be eaten during the period of Shiloh?Is it allowed to slaughter offerings anywhere that overlooks Shiloh?Why was the place called Taanath Shiloh?What does it mean to “overlook Shiloh?”Where did the Divine Presence …
Chapter 14, Mishna 1 How many camps were in Shiloh?Which camp was missing in Shiloh?Why must there have been a Levite camp in Shiloh?Did the Levite camp serve as a City of Refuge?Where did negligent killers go in the wilderness?Can …
Chapter 14, Mishna 1 What is a pure animal? What is a pure fowl?What does it mean that all animals were fit to be sacrificed by Noah?Do birds have to be male and unblemished to be brought as offerings in …
Chapter 14, Mishna 1 In what situation must a guilt offering’s status be uprooted to be liable for offering outside ther Holy Temple?How can an offering be unfit for its own sake but fit not for its own sake?Is one …
Chapter 14, Mishna 1 When is one liable for slaughtering outside the courtyard?What if consecrated animal is used in bestiality?What if animal is consecrated, then designated for idolatry?Can someone consecrate the animal of another?Different if something is initially fit and …
Key Dafs
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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 …
Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 2 A spectacular page! Apropos a verse about the end of days which explain why men and women celebrated separately during Sukkot in the Holy Temple, we enter an extended digression on the nature of …
Topics covered: Chapter 4, Mishna 2 Why do we say bless God for commanding us to perform a commandment that was actually instituted by the Sages, and which does not appear anywhere in the Torah? Which blessings do we say …
Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 4 The fine linen garments of the High Priest on Yom Kippur were fine indeed! Apropos the wealth of one High Priest who was also a Sage, Rabbi Elazar ben Harsum, we learn that one …
Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 6 People crowded on the Temple Mount for Festivals, yet they all had room to bow and confess privately. This leads to an AMAZING discussion of the ongoing miracles in the Holy Temple, especially the …
Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 What was the Ark of the Covenant? What was in it besides the Tablets of the Ten Commandments? Was the original Torah Scroll inside it too? Was there a second Ark that was carried …
Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 5 What is tumah, ritual impurity? How does to relate to tahara, ritual purity, and kedusha, holiness? How is tumah a acquired? How is it transmitted? What are its degrees? What are the consequences of …
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, 11:30 am Friday and about an hour after Shabbat ends every Saturday. For Jewish holidays, same schedule as Shabbat. All times Pacific.
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