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 3, Mishna 1 Does kosher fat seal a perforation?Can fat prevent an animal from becoming a tereifa?Can sparing financial loss affect a Torah-law ruling?Is exposed honey safe to drink?Can exposed honey contain snake venom?Which liquids are subject to the …
Chapter 3, Mishna 1 Can an animal be a treifa and then become kosher again?When is a perforation considered temporary and when permanent?When are and aren’t cysts disqualifying?Is scab sufficient to heal a wound?What is relevance of perforated penis?What is …
Chapter 3, Mishna 1 What is relevance of whether lung’s inner membrane or outer membrane is perforated?Does outer membrane protect the lung?How to know if lung is perforated through both membranes?Why can’t lung be tested in cold or hot water?What …
Chapter 3, Mishna 1 When does cut windpipe render animal a treifa?What is requisite measure of hole in windpipe to render animal a treifa?When do small holes join to constitute requisite measure?What is an issar and what is relevance?Can an …
Chapter 3, Mishna 1 Where does the gullet begin?Is the entrance of the gullet a valid place for shechita?Can someone follow whichever opinion is more lenient?Can you take leniencies from both sides of a dispute?Is taking every strict opinion a …
Chapter 3, Mishna 1 Where is there an allusion in the Torah to the treifa?How do we know that a treifa means an animal that cannot live?Can a treifa live and still be deemed a treifa that is not kosher …
Chapter 2, Mishna 10, 11, Chapter 3, Mishna 1 When one slaughters an animal, where should blood go?What is difference about slaughter into seas?What is danger that blood will drain in a way that resembles idolatry?Can blood flow into small …
Chapter 2, Mishna 8, 9 Is animal owned by gentile disqualified if slaughtered by Jew with proper intent?What if there was intent not to use animal for idolatry but to use blood for a later idolatrous ritual?When do we apply …
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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