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 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 …
Chapter 1, Mishna 1, 2 How is law of treifa derived?Why can’t we wear wool and linen together?Is a bird killed by melika permitted for altar?What is relevance of an animal being born by C section?Why is an animal born …
Chapter 1, Mishna 1 How is the omer meal offering similar to the meal offering of a sinner, and how is it different?Which meal offerings are disqualified if the handful is removed not for their sake?How does this intersect with …
Chapter 1, Mishna 1 Why does Rabbi Shimon say that all meal offerings follow one law?And, what is meant by “slaughtered offerings are different”?Why does improper intent disqualify animal offerings?Is a sin offering disqualified if it’s slaughtered for the wrong …
Chapter 1, Mishna 1 What does priest do when someone brings meal offering to Temple?How was meal offering of a sinner different than other meal offerings?What is a sin offering brought for?What is difference between meal offering brought “not for …
Chapter 14, Mishna 1 On which altars is there a requirement for a vertical partition?What if offerings were started on private altar and then presented on public altar?What is law of waving breast and thigh and terumah of thanks offering?What …
Chapter 14, Mishna 1 What is relevance of “rest and inheritance” to Shiloh and Jerusalem?What rest was there in the Temple in Jerusalem?What is relevance of Samson story?How could Samson’s father bring sacrifice on private altar?What if offering is consecrated …
Chapter 14, Mishna 1 Where could peace offerings be eaten during the period of Shiloh?Is it allowed to slaughter offerings anywhere that overlooks Shiloh?Why was the place called Taanath Shiloh?What does it mean to “overlook Shiloh?”Where did the Divine Presence …
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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