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 13, Mishna 3, 4 Which sacrificial parts are included in liability for offering up outside the Temple?What is “fit to be brought”?Do disqualified offerings create liability if offered outside?What kinds of disqualification create liability for offering up outside the …
Chapter 13, Mishna 1, 2 What counts toward an olive-bulk for liability regarding the prohibition on “offering up” outside the Holy Temple?What is “offering up” in this context?Does liability require a period of fitness?Does it matter if the offering was …
Chapter 13, Mishna 1 Is one liable for violating the prohibition on bringing up an offering outside the Holy Temple if he performs only part of that process?Is one liable for violating that prohibition if he brings up an offering …
Chapter 12, Mishna 4, Chapter 13, Mishna 1 Where did they burn “the bulls and goats that are burned”?What were the three camps in the wilderness, and what were their equivalents in Jerusalem?What was the place of ashes?Was the same …
Chapter 12, Mishna 4 When do we say that most of an animal has left the courtyard?When is an animal considered to be “outside?”If burned bulls or goats leave the courtyard and return, do they still render garments impure?Do burned …
Chapter 12, Mishna 3, 4 When do priests receive the hides of animal offerings, and when do they not?What if the animal is disqualified before it is flayed? What if after?Is it Rabbi Elazar’s opinion that blood does not make …
Chapter 12, Mishna 2 Why do priests receive the hides of offerings of the most sacred order?Why don’t priests get the hide of a leftover burnt offering?And what if leftover consecrated property becomes a gift offering?Do priests get the hide …
Chapter 12, Mishna 1 Why may a blemished priest eat offerings but not sacrifice them?Why do blemished priests receive a share of the offerings?Do priests blemished from birth also receive a share of the sin offering?And do temporarily blemished priests …
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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