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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#1834Â – Sanhedrin 25 Chapter 3, Mishna 3 Is one who lends at interest disqualified from bearing witness? Is one who borrows at interest disqualified from bearing witness? Can a shochet who sells treif meat be fit for bearing witness? …
#1833Â – Sanhedrin 24 Chapter 3, Mishna 1, 2, 3 When Rabbi Meir and the Rabbanim disagree about a litigant who accepts an otherwise disqualified judge, and then seeks to retract that acceptance, what exactly do they disagree about? What …
#1832Â – Sanhedrin 23 Chapter 3, Mishna 1 When can litigant disqualify a judge? When can litigant disqualify a witness? Who chooses which judges on a court? Can either litigant reject a judge or court that the other side wants? …
#1831Â – Sanhedrin 22 Chapter 2, Mishna 5, 6 What is the ashurit script and what is relevance? Why did Hebrew letters change? What is ivrit script? Why was Ezra considered to be like Moses? In which script were 10 …
#1830Â – Sanhedrin 21 Chapter 2, Mishna4, 5 Why should a king not have too many wives? What is too many? Can we learn out additional laws from rationale for one law? Can one ever take collateral from a widow? …
#1829 – Sanhedrin 20 – red Chapter 2, Mishna 2, 3 Can king join a funeral procession? If king is a mourner, does he sit on low chair? Do women go in front or behind funeral bier? What is relevance …
#1828 – Sanhedrin 19 – blue Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Can high priest be part of funeral procession of close relative? Does he have to stay in the Holy Temple? How can others console the high priest? How can high …
#1827 – Sanhedrin 18 – green Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Who judges High Priest if he transgresses? Does High Priest perform halitza? Does High Priest leave Temple to attend burial of close relatives? How does a High Priest mourn? Can …
#1826Â – Sanhedrin 17 Chapter 1, Mishna 1 Were Eldad and Medad rebelling against Moses when they prophesied in the camp? Did they prophesy for a longer time/different subjects than the 70 elders? How were the 70 elders in the …
Key Dafs
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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 …
Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 The first commandment is “Be fruitful and multiply.” If it only meant “Reproduce,” then “be fruitful” would be redundant. Be fruitful is the secret to life: bearing fruit is what we souls were …
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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