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, 12:00 pm 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 1, Mishna 7, 8, Chapter 2, Mishna 1 From when and until when may a bechor donkey be redeemed?When the Torah lists two ways to do a mitzvah, which way is preferable?When is a bechor kosher animal not a …
Chapter 1, Mishna 6 With what can firstborn donkey be redeemed?Can it be redeemed with lamb that was removed from mother’s womb after animal was shechted?Can a slaughtered lamb be used?What about lamb that resembles a goat?Can donkey bechor be …
Chapter 1, Mishna 5 Is there a minimum value for a lamb used to redeem a bechor donkey?If not redeemed with a lamb, can the bechor donkey be redeemed some other way?If I redeem your bechor donkey with my lamb, …
Chapter 1, Mishna 5 Is prohibited food susceptible to the tumah of food?What does “its prohibition serves as its intention” mean?Is it permitted to benefit from an unredeemed bechor donkey?What does one do who chooses not to redeem his bechor …
Chapter 1, Mishna 5 If a female donkey gives birth for the first time, and delivers twins, if the first born is a male, it must be redeemed by giving a lamb to a priest.If it delivers a male and …
Chapter 1, Mishna 4 Is kosher fish that was swallowed by non-kosher fish permitted to eat?What is relevance of animal’s type of reproductive organs to whether it is kosher?What is relevance of what time of day animal has intercourse or …
Chapter 1, Mishna 3 Can a Jew work at a non-kosher restaurant?Why are the non-kosher animals repeated in Deuteronomy?What is the purpose of mentioning the shesua?When does a mixed-species offspring have firstborn status?How much of the offspring must resemble its …
Chapter 1, Mishna 3 What is the relevance of an offspring “of sorts” sharing the mother’s characteristics?How does it affect firstborn status?How are goats and ewes similar in their firstborn status?Does the difference in species affect the offspring’s firstborn status?Is …
Key Dafs
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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 …
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. …
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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