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 5, Mishna 3 Should we be suspicious of gentile who has access to a Jew’s wine?To what extent are there mixed concerns?What is relevance of how far away the Jew went, and for how long while gentile has access …
Chapter 5, Mishna 2 What if forbidden food at first enhanced the flavor of permitted food, but then detracted from flavor?What sacred and nonsacred leaven fell into dough?What if forbidden vinegar fell into beans?What if mouse fell into barrel of …
Chapter 5, Mishna 2 Can a Jew smell wine used in idolatry?If gentile smells a Jew’s wine, is the wine forbidden?Is smell a form of consumption?Is bread prohibited to non-priest because it has absorbed flavor of cumin being burned?What is …
Chapter 5, Mishna 1, 2 When can Jewish laborer keep wages from working for idolator?Why is it different if it’s “toward evening” re when he worked with prohibited substance?Can a Jew rent out his donkey to transport something for idolatry?Can …
Chapter 5, Mishna 1 If gentile hired Jew to break barrels of wine used for idolatry, can the jew keep his wage?Can a Jew plant wheat (diverse kinds) in a gentile’s vineyard?Can a Jew uproot wheat in a gentile’s vineyard?Does …
Chapter 5, Mishna 1 Are prostitutes prohibited from bringing animal to Temple as an offering?What is relevance of produce of shmitta year and getting rid of wine of idolators?If man paid prostitute but didn’t engage in intercourse or vice versa, …
Chapter 5, Mishna 1 If a Jew works for a gentile, and then he’s to produce or transport wine, may he keep his wage?What is the relevance of orlah produce?What is the relevance of shmittah (Sabbatical year) produce?Does it matter …
Chapter 4, Mishna 10 If Jew renders wine of gentile permitted by treading gentile’s grapes and leaves wine in gentile’s possession, does gentile have access to the wine?What is role of watchman?What is relevance of city with double doors and …
Key Dafs
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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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