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, 12:00 pm 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 7, Mishna 1 How many groups of angels sing each day?What song do the angels sing?How do the angels recite “Holy, holy, holy”?Who is dearer to God, Israel or the angels?How often do the angels sing praise to God?When …
Chapter 7, Mishna 1 Why don’t we eat the sciatic nerve?Does it apply to both thighs?What is relevance of 16th of Nisan?Why does burning need to wait until day after Passover?Why are sinews listed separately than the meat?How are sinews …
Chapter 7, Mishna 1 Where does the prohibition of eating the sciatic nerve apply?Does the prohibition apply to sacrifices?Does the prohibition apply to wild animals?Why doesn’t the prohibition apply to birds?Does the sciatic nerve have flavor?What is the mishna teaching …
Chapter 6, Mishna 6, 7 When slaughtering an undomesticated kosher animal, do we have to cover all of the blood of the soul?What if blood spurted out of pit?What must blood be covered with?What is relevance of substance where plants …
Chapter 6, Mishna 5, 6 If one slaughtered an undomesticated animal or bird and didn’t cover blood and someone else saw it, is the second person obligated to cover blood?What if blood had been covered and then uncovered?Does one who …
Chapter 6, Mishna 3, 4 What happens if a deaf-mute, imbecile, or minor slaughters a kosher undomesticated animal?What is the relevance of slaughtering a mother and its offspring on the same day?What do Rabbi Meir and the Rabbis disagree about?When …
Chapter 6, Mishna 2 When is one exempt from covering the blood?What qualifies as a valid slaughter?Which two Torah laws are connected by the word “slaughter”?What does slaughtering a sacrifice outside the Temple teach about covering the blood?Can different words …
Chapter 6, Mishna 1 Is domesticated animal included in category of undomesticated animal with regard to mitzvah of covering the blood?Is blood of a domesticated animal like water?What liquids are excluded from having status of a spring?Why the double verb …
Key Dafs
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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 …
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 …
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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