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.
-
Topics covered:Chapter 1, Mishna 10What is significance of “dwelling” in commandment to observe Shabbos in your dwelling? Are there Shabbos laws that are different for Jews living in EY (Eretz Yisroel) and not? For how long did the Jews eat …
Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 9, 10 What kinds of sprinkling can or cannot women perform? Who performs waving and what kind of waving and how? Does a naziress (female nazir) perform her own waving? Which land-dependent mitzvot only apply …
Topics covered:Chapter 1, Mishna 8Can daughter of a priest become impure for the dead? Can Jewish men remove beards? If a woman has a beard, can she shave it? What does “corners of the beard” mean? Is there a difference …
Topics covered:Chapter 1, Mishna 8Why are women exempt from positive time-bound mitzvahs? Why are there so many exceptions to this? Why are women exempt from studying Torah? Why do we derive this law from tefillin rather than sukkah? Why aren’t …
Topics covered:Chapter 1, Mishna 8What are our obligations to honor parents when it costs us monetary loss? Why stand for farmer bringing first fruits but not Torah scholar? Does one show reverence in a bathhouse? When is one obligated to …
Topics covered:Chapter 1, Mishna 8What is the difference between fearing one’s parent and honoring one’s parent? From whose funds does son care for parent? Can you give maaser ani (poor man’s tithe) funds to your father? How far do you …
Topics covered:Chapter 1, Mishna 8Why is honoring our parents so crucial? Which parent do we honor first? What does “words of your mouth” mean? Do you get a reward for doing something you’re not obligated to do? Is it disrespectful …
Topics covered:Chapter 1, Mishna 8Is grandfather obligated to teach grandson Torah? What does “you shall teach them diligently”? What does “you shall put these words upon your heart” mean? How is Torah compared to elixir of life? How can we …
Topics covered:Chapter 1, Mishna 7, 8What happens if price goes up before money is given to Temple? Can one pull out of a deal? What are differences between obligations of men and women in performance of mitzvahs? Why are there …
Key Dafs
-
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.
Sign me up!
Our newsletter goes out about twice a month, with links to our most popular posts and episodes.