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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How are two men obligated to support one stepdaughter similar to the renter of a millstone?Must a widow live in her former husband’s house after his death in order to be sustaioned by his estate?At the time Rabbi Yehuda haNasi …
Chapter 1, Mishna 2, 3 Why does the individual count of the Levites by families total 22,300?Why does the collective count of the Levites themselves total only 22,000?Where did the additional 300 Levites go?How much silver was collected for the …
Chapter 1, Mishna 1, 2 Do firstborn donkeys belonging to priest need to be redeemed?What does it mean that the Levites took place of firstborn people and animals of Israel?When and how is Levite’s firstborn status abrogated?What is ritual of …
#1016 – Kesubos 102 If a man stipulates that he will sustain his stepdaughter for five years, is the obligation enforceable?Is it enforceable to the extent of collecting from sold properties via lien?How does this compare to a man who …
Chapter 1, Mishna 1 Can a Jew sell right to fetuses to gentile?What if a Jew sells a labor animal to gentile?What does it mean that he has to buy it back for up to ten times its value mean?Could …
Chapter 1, Mishna 1 Why do we learn Torah?What if we can’t retain what we learn?Why is there a sanctity of firstborn?Why can a donkey, which is a nonkosher animal, be a bechor?When must a donkey bechor be redeemed?What if …
Chapter 12, Mishna 4, 5 In Rabbi Yehuda’s view, why is one flogged for taking the mother bird?Why is a robber flogged even though he must return what he stole?What does the robber’s case teach about Rabbi Yehuda’s view?Why is …
Chapter 12, MIshna 1, 2, 3 Can the mother bird be compared to the fledglings?What does “tzippor” teach about non-kosher birds?What does “a mother of fledglings that is tereifa” mean?Why is the mitzvah still required when the mother is tereifa?Does …
Key Dafs
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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 …
Topics covered: Why can we make up a missed Amidah but not a Shema? Rabba’s insight could uproot mountains, Rav Yosef’s knowledge encompassed the entire tradition since Sinai. Which takes precedence? Torah scholars increase peace in the world 🌎 …
Topics covered: Three matters lengthen our years, three shorten, three things come only through great blessing: a good king, a good year, a good dream. A dream not interpreted is like a letter not read. Which dreams are fulfilled? …
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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