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 4, Mishna 3Topics covered:How do we know that both buyer and seller are subject to laws of exploitation?How is merchant different than a seller?Why is merchant not subject to laws of exploitation?How can buyer avoid exploitation?What is one who …
Chapter 4, Mishna 2Topics covered:How much over or under market value constitutes exploitation in a sale of movable goods according to Torah law?Until when may the exploited party make a claim of exploitation?What is the consequence of a successful claim? …
Chapter 4, Mishna 1Topics covered:What constitutes an act of bad faith?Can one ever make a commitment that they have no intention of keeping it?If someone reneges on a verbal commitment does that mean he acted in bad faith?Is seller who …
Chapter 4, Mishna 1Topics covered:What if someone accepts deposit and denies it?How are transactional business laws an opportunity for holiness?What are two types of deposit?If money changing hands is not trigger for transaction, why is that me’ila? (i’m confused)When is …
Chapter 4, Mishna 1Topics covered:What can nd can’t be an item of symbolic exchange?How can you sell land and movable goods in one transaction?What is relevance of Boaz and Ruth to law of symbolic exchange?When can produce be used as …
Chapter 4, Mishna 1Topics covered:Are coins acquired by means of a transaction of exchange?What is property that is being used as monetary value?How is appraisal of grain different from appraisal of coins?What if property-for-money transaction is converted into a property-for-property …
Chapter 4, Mishna 1Topics covered:If you turn produce into currency, does that sacralize currency? Can you trade it for different kind of currency?Are coins relative to produce currency or commodity?Can we desacralize produce with gold dinars?What about second tithe produce?Why …
Chapter 3, Mishna 10, 11 Chapter 4, Mishna 1 Topics covered: What is relevance of witnesses to misappropriation? Is law always in accordance with Rabbi Akiva? Does owner need to know if thief returns what he stole? What if someone …
Chapter 3, Mishna 8, 9, 10 Topics covered: What is relevance of how bailee carries money? What does “bind up money in your hand” mean? What is Talmudic method for diversifying your portfolio? Where is blessing found and not found? …
Key Dafs
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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 …
Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 6, 7 KEY DAF! Putting our page in context. What have learned so far in our Talmud journey? Why does the concept of eruv matter? Because we transform space by creating an edifice in …
Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 2 Beis Shammai and Beis Hillel disagree on how to correct an alleyway so carrying is permitted there on Shabbos. A certain student gives his own interpretation of the dispute. Who is this student? …
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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