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 3, 4 If the blood of a sacrifice was sprinkled in the wrong location on the altar, what is the law concerning the edible portions of the offering?Does applying the blood to the wrong place on the …
Chapter 2, Mishna 2, 3 If an offering must be slaughtered in the Teople courtyard in order to be valid, what of only part of the animal, or part of the priest is in the courtyard?If the blood of an …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 If an action by priest needs to be performed by finger, does it need to be right hand?Does use of left hand to convey limbs of elevation offering up altar disqualify it?What creates atonement when offering …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 How does the front plate of the High Priest (tzitz) atone for offerings that became impure?Does the tzitz bring acceptance for all impure offerings?And does it atone even when the individual bringing the offering was unaware …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 What are the requirements for the hand/foot washing of the priests in the Holy Temple with regard to service vessels?Must a priest be circumcised to serve in the Holy Temple?What is an uncircumcised heart?How does tumah …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 If a priest sanctified his hands and feet for the removal of the ashes from the altar, and that act was performed before dawn, does he need to sanctify them again for the daytime service?But we …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Does a louse interpose between priest and vestments?What about dirt? A thread?What about a thread that will soon fall off?What about tefillin?What is difference between tefillin of hand that only they interpose?Are offerings disqualified if brought …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Is priest’s Temple service valid if he’s wearing frayed clothing?What if he’s lacking one of requisite vestments or wears multiple?What if he has a bandage on his body, or if the vestments are bloody?What if vestments …
Key Dafs
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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 …
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 …
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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