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 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 …
Chapter 2, Mishna 7, 8 What if animal is in danger of imminent death before being slaughtered?What is the convulsion that is an indication of life?What does it mean if one slaughters an animal at night and wakes in the …
Chapter 2, Mishna 6, 7 Does meat need water to become impure?Does slaughter make meat impure by Torah law or rabbinic law?Do grapes become impure from their own juice?Can grapes become impure without intent?Is consecrated flour like food that got …
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 …
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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