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, 5 What if one of two loaves of Shavuos or one of the two arrangements of showbread become tamei?Is it either fit in its entirety or unfit in its entirety?What is relevance of when blood …
Chapter 2, Mishna 2 Are the two loaves indispensable for sacrifice of the two lambs, or vice versa?What if one slaughtered two lambs which accompany two loaves on Shavuos with intent to eat the next day?What is relevance of intent …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Does intent to burn the frankincense beyond its time render the offering piggul?Is frankincense part of the meal offering?Can intent about only one permitting factor make an offering piggul?Can one permitting factor render another permitting factor …
Chapter 1, Mishna 4, 5 What if remainder of meal offering becomes lacking between removal and burning on altar?What is relevance of law of pigul?Is burning of handful effective in removing remainder from me’ila?If eating not allowed but priest did …
Chapter 1, Mishna 3, 4 How does the priest perform the removal of a handful?When does increasing oil invalidate a meal offering?Why does oil disqualify a sinner’s meal offering?Does non-sacred oil disqualify a meal offering?From where do we learn that …
Chapter 1, Mishna 2 If a priest removed handful with left hand, is meal offering unfit?When it specifies “hand of priest” does it always mean right hand?What is relevance of blood and oil in the purification of the metzora?What is …
Chapter 1, Mishna 2 Can a meal offering be sanctified without oil and frankincense?Can oil or frankincense be sanctified on their own?What does the measuring vessel sanctify?Do service vessels sanctify only what they normally hold?Do bowls used for liquids sanctify …
Chapter 1, Mishna 2 How is wheat flour sanctified?How can we learn from what is not said?What is the difference between sanctification and consecration?Does service vessel sanctify meal offering if it’s resting on the ground?How does one properly remove a …
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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