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 3, Mishna 10 Why is the right side considered the side of entry for a mezuzah?Does a house with only one doorpost need a mezuzah?Is one doorpost enough for a mezuzah?Why might someone think a mezuzah could be written …
Chapter 3, Mishna 10 Does a mezuzah need scoring lines?How about tefillin?May a scribe write a mezuzah or tefillin from memory?Is it allowed to sit on a bed when a Torah scroll is on the bed?Why did Rabbi Elazar jump …
Chapter 3, Mishna 10 How does one separate tithes when untithed produce is mixed with tithed produce?May demai from the market be used to tithe such a mixture?Is gentile-grown produce in Eretz Yisrael obligated in tithes?What if one buys land …
Chapter 3, Mishna 10 How many mistakes per column can a Torah scroll have and still be corrected?How many errors per column disqualify a Torah scroll?Can one perfect column save the whole scroll?Does the scroll need to be mostly correct …
Chapter 3, Mishna 10 What is relevance of knobs, goblet and flowers that menorah branches emerge from?What are the goblets of the menorah similar to?What are the knobs of the menorah similar to?What are the flowers of the menorah similar …
Chapter 3, Mishna 9, 10 Is the application of the oil for a metzorah leper’s invalid if done in the right way but with the wrong offering in mind?What if done in the wrong direction?Can a law learned by juxtaposition …
Chapter 3, Mishna 9 Does missing one arrangement invalidate the shewbread?Does missing either the shewbread or the frankincense invalidate the mitzva?When does missing even one required component invalidate the mitzva?Does missing even one of the seven sprinklings of the red …
Chapter 3, Mishna 7, 8 Is service vessel indispensable for a meal offering?If handful is sacrificed by hand, must it be done with right hand?When does lack of service vessel make it unfit?When must handful be sanctified in a service …
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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