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 When may a Jew be treated by an idolator?Can a Jew have his hair cut by an idolatrous barber?What is monetary treatment and what is personal treatment?Can a Jew visit an idolatrous healer for bloodletting-related medical …
Chapter 2, Mishna 2 Can a Jewish woman deliver the baby of an idolatrous woman?Can a Jewish woman nurse an idolator’s baby?Can an idolator deliver a Jewish baby?Can an idolator nurse a Jewish baby?Who should deliver a Jewish child on …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 What does it mean that cows were singing as they brought the ark back to Shiloh?What song did they recite?Was it the song of the sea, Isaiah 12:4, a psalm or something else?What is the book …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 When do we suspect idolators of engaging in bestiality?Can we purchase a red heifer from an idolator?Who was Dama ben Netina?Can we induce the conception of a red heifer?Has morality increased in the world? Opening song: …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 When do we suspect non-Jews of engaging in bestiality?When do we suspect that an animal was set aside for idolatry?When can one purchase animal for use as an offering from idolator and not have concern that …
Chapter 1, Mishna 9, 10 Can one rent a house or field to a non-Jew in the land of Israel?Can one sell a house to gentile in the land of Israel?What about outside the land of Israel?Can one rent a …
Chapter 1, Mishna 8, 9 When has student reached the level to issue legal decisions?Until when is a scholar considered too immature to render legal decisions?What is relevance of Psalm 1?Whose “leaf does not wither”?What conversations are the leaves of …
Chapter 1, Mishna 8 How did Rabbi Meir rescue his sister-in-law (daughter of Rabbi Hanania ben Teradyon) from enslavement in Roman brothel?How did Rabbi Meir escape capture by the Romans?Is it OK for a Jew to go to Roman circus …
Key Dafs
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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? …
Topics covered: Chapter 24, Mishna 3, 4 “Shatit” dip may be mixed on Shabbos, but its method of prep should be altered. Related teachings brought down from the notebooks of Zeiri and Levi, who learned before Rabbi Chiyya and …
Topics covered: Chapter 23, Mishna 6, Chapter 24, Mishna 1 R’ Abbahu says the souls of the righteous shuttle back and forth between this world and the World of Souls for a year after death. Rav says that if …
Topics Covered: Shevut ecompasses Rabbinic decrees designed either to protect us from committing Biblical transgressions or to enhance the sanctity, spirituality and beauty of Shabbos. The first Mishnah of Chapter 18 teaches that we may move some of our …
Topics covered: How the sages honored Shabbos! This page has too many great, classic teachings in one place, so it’s really worth reviewing and studying. Welcoming the Shabbat bride – source for the 16th century song Lecha Dodi which …
Topics covered: To be liable for writing on Shabbos, one must write two letters that endure, which generally means they spell a word. One example is Shem, a name made from the first two letters the longer name Shimon. …
Topics covered: To be liable for carrying or throwing on Shabbos, one must first make a valid taking and finish with a valid placing of the object. If one draws water from water, or pours water into water, one …
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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