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 10, Mishna 3, 4 If a priest mistakenly slaughtered a less frequent offering before a more frequent one, should he go ahead and complete the less frequent offering?Or should he set its blood aside and first sacrifice the more …
Chapter 10, Mishna 2, 3 Which offerings take precedence over which offerings?Do meal offerings precede bird offerings or vice versa?Does voluntary meal offering precede meal offering of a sinner?What is the sota ritual?Does voluntary meal offering take precedence over meal …
Chapter 10, Mishna 1 How do we know that a more frequent offering must come before a less frequent one?Is the verse about the morning offering enough to prove this?Does it only show that the DAILY offering precedes the additional …
Chapter 9, Mishna 5 Do service vessels used for dry items sanctify liquids and vice versa?Is there minimum measure for blood of offerings used for sprinkling?How can a meal offering be considered a liquid?When do service vessels sanctify items?What is …
Chapter 9, Mishna 4 Does the phrase “until the morning” mean the ashes must be removed before dawn, even though they can actually be removed any time during the night?What is Rav Hisda’s reason for saying that dawn counts the …
Chapter 9, Mishna 2 What are the items that if they ascend upon the altar, they descend?Why is the meat of sin offerings and guilt offerings not fit for altar and must descend?What is relevance of parts of body of …
Chapter 9, Mishna 2 If sacrificial portions may stay on the altar even when their blood was spilled and can no longer be sprinkled, then when the blood is still intact and could be sprinkled, isn’t it even more obvious …
Chapter 9, Mishna 1, 2 Does the altar sacralize anything that is upon it?What is relevance of disqualified bird burnt offering?What is relevance of handfuls of flour of the meal offering?If disqualified meal offering ascends by itself, does it descend?Which …
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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