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 11, Mishna 5, 6, 7 ​​Why does Rabbi Tarfon say that a vessel used to cook a sin offering may be reused throughout the Festival without scouring and rinsing?And, how can he say the whole Festival counts like one …
Chapter 11, Mishna 4, 5 What if earthenware vessel used for offering breaks outside the Temple courtyard?Why is it necessary to break the vessel after puncturing it?What is legal difference between copper and earthenware vessel?What is procedure for laundering garment …
Chapter 11, Mishna 3, 4 What is considered a garment?When does vessel or garment require obligatory laundering?What is sackcloth and what is relevance?What needs to be washed in sacred place?What is relevance of blood sprayed on a flayed hide?Is there …
Chapter 11, Mishna 1, 2 If the blood of a qualified sin offering sprayed onto a ritually impure (tamei) garment, does the garment require statutory laundering?Does the water of purification (used for purifying one who contracted corpse tumah) work if …
Chapter 11, Mishna 1 What is the laundering requirement with respect to sin offerings?Does the blood of a disqualified sin offering require a garment to be laundered?What is the difference between a disqualified sin offering that was once fit and …
Chapter 10, Mishna 3, 4 If a priest mistakenly slaughtered a less frequent offering before a more frequent one, should he go ahead and complete the less frequent offering?Or should he set its blood aside and first sacrifice the more …
Chapter 10, Mishna 2, 3 Which offerings take precedence over which offerings?Do meal offerings precede bird offerings or vice versa?Does voluntary meal offering precede meal offering of a sinner?What is the sota ritual?Does voluntary meal offering take precedence over meal …
Chapter 10, Mishna 1 How do we know that a more frequent offering must come before a less frequent one?Is the verse about the morning offering enough to prove this?Does it only show that the DAILY offering precedes the additional …
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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