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, 12:00 pm 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 6, Mishna 2 When is one exempt from covering the blood?What qualifies as a valid slaughter?Which two Torah laws are connected by the word “slaughter”?What does slaughtering a sacrifice outside the Temple teach about covering the blood?Can different words …
Chapter 6, Mishna 1 Is domesticated animal included in category of undomesticated animal with regard to mitzvah of covering the blood?Is blood of a domesticated animal like water?What liquids are excluded from having status of a spring?Why the double verb …
Chapter 5, Mishna 5, 6, Chapter 6, Mishna 1 When must the seller warn the buyer about potential violation of the prohibition on slaughtering the mother animal and its offspring on the same day?Why is a groom and bride an …
Chapter 5, Mishna 2, 3, 4 What is shechita?If an act looks just like kosher slaughter but doesn’t render meat permissible, is it called shechita?Is there punishment for one who slaughtered red heifer and offspring on the same day?Is slaughter …
Chapter 5, Mishna 1, 2 What is slaughter according to Rabbi Shimon?What if mother and offspring are slaughtered on one day but parent is unfit for sacrifice?If animal is already unfit can there be shechicta?What happens if sacred animals are …
Chapter 5, Mishna 1 What is a koy and what is relevance?Does prohibition against slaughtering mother and offspring on same day apply to offspring of a goat and a ewe?What about offspring of a goat and a doe?Does prohibition apply …
Chapter 5, Mishna 1 When may an animal be slaughtered outside the courtyard of the Holy Temple?How does this prohibition intersect with the laws of sacred/non-sacred and inside/outside the Holy Temple courtyard?What is the punishment for slaughtering an animal and …
Chapter 4, Mishna 7, 8 What happens if a broken limb lacks enough flesh covering the jutting bone?Is only the limb forbidden or the entire animal?Does shechita purify a hanging limb of a tereifa?Why isn’t a hanging limb treated as …
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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