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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#1809-1810 Bava Basra 175-176 Chapter 10, Mishna 10 Does creditor need promissory note to go after debtor’s property if he’s already sold it? Is IOU document signed by debtor without witnesses a valid promissory note? Can guarantor join lender-borrower relationship …
#1808 Bava Basra 174 Chapter 10, Mishna 9 What is the language of unconditional guarantee? What is difference between language of “give” and language of “lend”? What is law if someone says “give money to him and I am the …
#1807 Bava Basra 173 Chapter 10, Mishna 7, 8, 9 Can right to collect debt be transferred by handing over a promissory note? What if two men with same name owe money in the same town? If note of repayment …
#1805-1806 Bava Basra 171-172 Chapter 10, Mishna 6, 7 Can valid promissory note be dated on Shabbos or Yom Kippur? Can promissory note be post- or ante-dated? When is receipt written for debtor after debt is paid? What if creditor …
#1804 Bava Basra 170 Chapter 10, Mishna 5, 6 How is replacement deed different than original one? Why doesn’t duplicate include guarantee? What can/can’t the replacement deed be used for? Why would a land deed not have a guarantee? What …
#1802-1803 Bava Basra 168-169 Chapter 10, Mishna 3, 4, 5 Who pays for a gett? When something is sold, who is considered beneficiary? When scribe writes a contract, does he need permission from both parties? What is relevance of documents …
#1801 Bava Basra 167 Chapter 10, Mishna 2, 3 What is issue with writing signature at bottom of blank document? When writing a promissory note why shouldn’t write number from 3-10 at end of line? What is relevance of changing …
#1800 Bava Basra 166 Chapter 10, Mishna 2 What if it’s there’s a discrepancy on document between amount owed written in upper area and amount written in lower area? What if document says someone owes silver without specifying which kind …
#1798-1799 Bava Basra 164-165 Chapter 10, Mishna 1 Why change dating system in tied document? How to distinguish between a tied document and an ordinary document? What does “archan” mean and what is relevance? What is relevance of roundly shaped …
Key Dafs
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Chapter 7, Mishna 1Topics covered:How did Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish meet?When a knife or sword is being fabricated, when is it considered to be finished?How could R’ Yochanan publicly mention Resh Lakish’s past as a bandit ?Why was R’ …
Chapter 4, Mishna 8Topics covered:What is exploitation in words?What is verbal mistreatment?Why should we not be like friends of Job?How is penalty for verbal mistreatment different from one for monetary mistreatment?Who are the three who don’t ascend from gehinna?What are …
Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 7 It is good to find a good spouse – many wisdom teachings today about creating and sustaining a good marriage! Also, on the importance to raising children with good values. #Judaism #halacha #Torah …
Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 6, 7 The lamentation of women is so powerful that it must be limited when a funeral occurs during a festival. Colorful stories of Sages who confronted the Angel of Death. Some of them reported …
Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 13 Where 48 prophets and seven prophetesses failed, the Jew-hater Haman succeeded. Why?! The seven prophetesses of Israel: Sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Hannah, Avigail, Huldah and Esther. Help us build the A.T. App in Memory of …
Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 3, 4, 5 How did the Book of Esther get incorporated into the Bible? Is it as sacred as other books in the Bible? How do we know that it was Divinely inspired? How does …
Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 1 A story for the ages, literally! Honi the Circle-maker was a saintly miracle worker who nagged God on behalf of others. All his life he was puzzled by a verse from Psalms that compares …
Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 1 The memorable Tale of Rabbi Elazar and The Ugly Man. “Go to Uman.” Don’t stand under a shaky wall, i.e. don’t place yourself in danger where you might need a life-saving miracle, and the …
Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 2 Rainfall is equivalent to the resurrection of the dead. Torah scholars sharpen each other. Rabbi Chanina said, I have learned much from my teachers and more from my friends, but I have learned the …
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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