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 2, Mishna 1 Why does Rabbi Yehuda require cutting the veins?Is cutting the veins part of shechita?Must the veins be cut during shechita or can it be done afterward?Is cutting half a siman enough for shechita?If something is split …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Is the requirement to slaughter from the neck learned by tradition rather than from a verse?What does “And you shall slaughter” teach if the neck requirement is already traditional?How does Rabbi Yishmael derive that slaughter must …
Chapter 1, Mishna 15-18, Chapter 2, Mishna 1 What can and can’t you spend second tithe money on?What is temed?When does temed have legal status of wine?Can it be purchased with second tithe produce?Why can’t second tithe be used for …
Chapter 1, Mishna 11-14 What is element with which priests are unfit and levites fit? Vice versa?What disqualification pertains to Levites?What disqualification pertains to priests?Who is disqualified due to blemish, and who to passage of years?What service did Levites perform …
What happens during in-between stage of bird development, between young and mature?If one brings offering that’s not a lamb or a fully grown sheep (palges), has he fulfilled his obligation to bring ram or lamb?Is a palges considered an entity …
What are requirements for bird burnt offering?From whose cattle must offering come?What is relevance of mentioning finger?Where is pinching of bird offering performed on the bird?What is difference in age requirements for pigeons and doves?Why does Torah insist on older …
Does pinching a bird offering with a knife make it an unslaughtered carcass?How can pinching be valid if the bird is already dead?Does anything that is part of slaughter also affect separation?Can pinching be done before most of the neck …
Chapter 1, Mishna 7, 8 Does the moment the animal dies determine validity of slaughter?Can a jagged slaughter still be valid?Is slaughter valid if improper cutting occurs between proper cuts?Is cutting through a perforated area during slaughter valid?Is slaughter valid …
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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