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 10 How many mistakes per column can a Torah scroll have and still be corrected?How many errors per column disqualify a Torah scroll?Can one perfect column save the whole scroll?Does the scroll need to be mostly correct …
Chapter 3, Mishna 10 What is relevance of knobs, goblet and flowers that menorah branches emerge from?What are the goblets of the menorah similar to?What are the knobs of the menorah similar to?What are the flowers of the menorah similar …
Chapter 3, Mishna 9, 10 Is the application of the oil for a metzorah leper’s invalid if done in the right way but with the wrong offering in mind?What if done in the wrong direction?Can a law learned by juxtaposition …
Chapter 3, Mishna 9 Does missing one arrangement invalidate the shewbread?Does missing either the shewbread or the frankincense invalidate the mitzva?When does missing even one required component invalidate the mitzva?Does missing even one of the seven sprinklings of the red …
Chapter 3, Mishna 7, 8 Is service vessel indispensable for a meal offering?If handful is sacrificed by hand, must it be done with right hand?When does lack of service vessel make it unfit?When must handful be sanctified in a service …
Chapter 3, Mishna 5, 6 Does the High Priest’s frontplate permit a meal offering whose handful became impure?Does it permit a meal offering whose handful left its designated area?Does the frontplate atone for piggul?And for notar?Does the frontplate atone only …
Chapter 3, Mishna 4 What if meal offering is divided in two, placed in a service vessel with the two halfs not touching, and tevel yom touches one of the halfs of meal offering?What if one inserts another 1/2 tenth …
Chapter 3, Mishna 3, 4 Is meal offering of sinner rendered unfit by addition of small amount of oil?What happens when different components of different meal offerings are mingled together?If one offers up outside courtyard a limb that contains less …
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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