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, 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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🛎 AT Daily! #1752 👁 Joseph vs. The Evil Eye 🪟 Bava Basra 118
Chapter 8, Mishna 3 How was land apportioned after entering Eretz Yisroel (EY)? Based on census taken after leaving Egypt or upon entering the promised land? Are protests that succeeded only included in the Torah? What is the lesson from …
🛎 AT Daily! #1751 👨👦 Fathers and Grandfathers 🪟 Bava Basra 117Chapter 8, Mishna 3 How many portions of land in the Holy Land did the daughters of Zelophehad receive? How was this calculated? Can we learn principles of inheritance law from their story? Opening song: Hallel at Beis Medrash Hancock …
Chapter 8, Mishna 2 Why did the Sadducees claim a daughter inherits alongside a granddaughter? Who refuted this claim, and how? Why is it so important for men to have sons? What happens if they don’t? Between a surviving uncle …
🛎 AT Daily! #1748-1749 👨⚖️ Aid & Abet In Night Court 🪟 Bava Basra 114-115Chapter 8, Mishna 1, 2 What is the relevance of “on the day” re: distributing inheritances? When can visitors to dying person sign/witness the will? If three visit a dying person, can they convene a court to hear testimony? What …
Chapter 8, Mishna 1 How is inheritance transferred from one tribe to another? Why is it discouraged for woman to marry man from a different tribe? How do we know that husband inherits from wife? Why do we need two …
Chapter 8, Mishna 1 Does mother inherit from son the way father inherits from son? From where are these matters derived? How can daughter inherit land from more than one tribe? When does son inherit and when does daughter inherit? …
Chapter 8, Mishna 1 What does it mean that one should cleave to good people? Why was descendant of Moses an idolator but descendant of Aaron was righteous? Isn’t Pinchas also descended from Yitro? What is considered a good family? …
Chapter 8, Mishna 1 Who inherits in the absence of a will? When do half-brothers inherit from each other? What is the order of relatives’ inheritance rights? If a man dies and has no son, who gets inheritance? Why do …
Chapter 7, Mishna 4, 5 If two brothers divide father’s estate and then creditor takes portion from one? Do brothers who divide property have joint responsibility for paying father’s debts? To make sure brothers have equal value, is original division …
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, 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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