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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Chap 5, Mishna 10, 11, Chap 6, Mishna 1 What if someone sells something that shouldn’t be sold, like a bechor with a blemish not examined by an expert, or a treifa, or wine used for idolatry?What are items from …
Chap 5, Mishna 7 – 10 If priests are suspect with regard to causing blemishes on bechoros, does that mean they’re not trusted in other matters?Is a priest trusted to establish an animal as a bechor and regarding the blemish …
Chap 5, Mishna 5, 6, 7 If a gentile causes the blemish on a bechor, is the priest owner permitted to slaughter and eat the animal?What if a child causes the blemish?May we ask the gentile to cause the blemish?What …
Chap 5, Mishna 3, 4 Can you move a table on Shabbos if it might make a furrow?Is an unintentional act permitted or prohibited?If one slits the ear of a bechor what are the consequences?Can he shecht that animal?What if …
Chap 5, Mishna 2, 3 Can niddah eat meat of blemished bechor?What is relevance of tumah that originates in body or not?Who can eat Pesach offering?When can/can’t one skin an animal on festival?When/how is sanctity of blemished offering maintained?How must …
Chap 5, Mishna 1, 2 How is bechor with blemish redeemed?What does “it shall not be redeemed” refer to?Can you sell it and use money for same purpose as animal tithe offering?What if someone dedicates to God but not specifically …
Chap 5, Mishna 1 How are blemished consecrated animals redeemed?Which consecrated animals are sold by estimate?Can disqualified consecrated animals be treated as nonsacred animals so owner gets best price?How can animal be evaluated after it was slaughtered?Which animals are included …
Chap 4, Mishna 10 When is one suspect re sabbatical year and when suspect re tithes?How should we treat converts?If one is suspect re one matter suspect re the entire Torah?Who does “but the rabbis say” refer to?What are the …
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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