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 2, Mishna 3, 4 If the blood of a sacrifice was sprinkled in the wrong location on the altar, what is the law concerning the edible portions of the offering?Does applying the blood to the wrong place on the …
Chapter 2, Mishna 2, 3 If an offering must be slaughtered in the Teople courtyard in order to be valid, what of only part of the animal, or part of the priest is in the courtyard?If the blood of an …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 If an action by priest needs to be performed by finger, does it need to be right hand?Does use of left hand to convey limbs of elevation offering up altar disqualify it?What creates atonement when offering …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 How does the front plate of the High Priest (tzitz) atone for offerings that became impure?Does the tzitz bring acceptance for all impure offerings?And does it atone even when the individual bringing the offering was unaware …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 What are the requirements for the hand/foot washing of the priests in the Holy Temple with regard to service vessels?Must a priest be circumcised to serve in the Holy Temple?What is an uncircumcised heart?How does tumah …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 If a priest sanctified his hands and feet for the removal of the ashes from the altar, and that act was performed before dawn, does he need to sanctify them again for the daytime service?But we …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Does a louse interpose between priest and vestments?What about dirt? A thread?What about a thread that will soon fall off?What about tefillin?What is difference between tefillin of hand that only they interpose?Are offerings disqualified if brought …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Is priest’s Temple service valid if he’s wearing frayed clothing?What if he’s lacking one of requisite vestments or wears multiple?What if he has a bandage on his body, or if the vestments are bloody?What if vestments …
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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