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 6 Does eating third-degree impure food make us impure for sacrificial food?Is teruma-level purity considered impure for sacrificial food?Does teruma-level purity make produce impure for sacrificial food?Can teruma make sacrificial food impure?How many levels of impurity are …
Chapter 2, Mishna 6 What is second-degree impurity?Can impure hands touch meat bought with second-tithe money?Can impure hands make ordinary food impure?Do hands become impure when inserted through the doorway an impure house (with tzaraas)?Can second-degree impurity make non-sacred food …
Chapter 2, Mishna 4, 5, 6 What happens if act of slaughter is interrupted?What if it’s just a momentary pause?How much of a pause before slaughter is invalidated?What is interval equivalent to duration of an act of slaughter?What is difference …
Chapter 2, Mishna 2, 3 If two animals are slaughtered simultaneously, is the slaughter valid?What if two people are holding knife and slaughtering one animal?What are correct and incorrect slicing motions?What if two heads are decapitated in one motion?What is …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 When does a red heifer begin to impart impurity?Does shechita take effect only when the slaughter is completed?Can two people slaughter one offering together?How do we know that two people may not slaughter one offering together?When …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Why does Rabbi Yehuda require cutting the veins?Is cutting the veins part of shechita?Must the veins be cut during shechita or can it be done afterward?Is cutting half a siman enough for shechita?If something is split …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Is the requirement to slaughter from the neck learned by tradition rather than from a verse?What does “And you shall slaughter” teach if the neck requirement is already traditional?How does Rabbi Yishmael derive that slaughter must …
Chapter 1, Mishna 15-18, Chapter 2, Mishna 1 What can and can’t you spend second tithe money on?What is temed?When does temed have legal status of wine?Can it be purchased with second tithe produce?Why can’t second tithe be used for …
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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