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, Mishnah 3, 4 What are the differences between an anointed priest and a high priest consecrated by the vestments?What are the differences between a high priest and ordinary priest?What are the differences between a high priest and a …
Chapter 3, Mishnah 2, 3 Which offering does a king bring for a sin committed before he was king?Which offering does a king bring for a sin committed after he was king?Which offering does a high priest bring for a …
Chapter 2, Mishnah 1 Why does an ex-King become a commoner, and an ex-High Priest stays an ex-High Priest?If a king sins before he becomes king, but has not yet brought his sin offering, does he bring the offering of …
Chapter 6, 7 Mishna 9 What is “hearing a voice”? Why is court not liable for hearing upon hearing a voice? When is one liable to bring sliding scale offering? Why is it impossible for a king to become poor? …
Chapter 4, 5, Mishna 8 When we speak of erroneous rulings by the court, anointed priest or king, as well as unwitting violations by individuals, and resulting liability – which is to say opportunity – to achieve atonement by bringing …
Chapter 1, 2, 3 Mishna 7 If high priest issued ruling unwillingly and performed transgression intentionally, does he bring offering for unwitting transgression?What about if he issued bad ruling intentionally and committed transgression unwittingly?When is high priest liable for absence …
Chapter 1, Mishna 6 Can a communal offering be brought if 70 years have passed and most of people who committed original sin have died?What is relevance of second bull?Is it possible that a sin offering is a burnt offering?What …
Chapter 1, Mishna 5 If seven tribes sinned on the basis of an erroneous ruling who brings what offering?What if court of one of tribes issued erroneous ruling?If three tribes sin, how many bullsIf two individuals sin how many animals …
Key Dafs
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Chapter 6, Mishna 1 When defendant comes to swear an oath, what is the procedure involved?When one swears an oath before court, can it be in their own language (ie not Hebrew)?Even if one atones for taking name of God …
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 …
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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