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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#1835Â – Sanhedrin 26 Chapter 3, Mishna 3 Can a Jew work on farm of a non-Jew during sabbatical year? Can one prune vines for non-agricultural use during sabbatical year? What does it mean that average priest is guilty of …
#1834Â – Sanhedrin 25 Chapter 3, Mishna 3 Is one who lends at interest disqualified from bearing witness? Is one who borrows at interest disqualified from bearing witness? Can a shochet who sells treif meat be fit for bearing witness? …
#1833Â – Sanhedrin 24 Chapter 3, Mishna 1, 2, 3 When Rabbi Meir and the Rabbanim disagree about a litigant who accepts an otherwise disqualified judge, and then seeks to retract that acceptance, what exactly do they disagree about? What …
#1832Â – Sanhedrin 23 Chapter 3, Mishna 1 When can litigant disqualify a judge? When can litigant disqualify a witness? Who chooses which judges on a court? Can either litigant reject a judge or court that the other side wants? …
#1831Â – Sanhedrin 22 Chapter 2, Mishna 5, 6 What is the ashurit script and what is relevance? Why did Hebrew letters change? What is ivrit script? Why was Ezra considered to be like Moses? In which script were 10 …
#1830Â – Sanhedrin 21 Chapter 2, Mishna4, 5 Why should a king not have too many wives? What is too many? Can we learn out additional laws from rationale for one law? Can one ever take collateral from a widow? …
#1829 – Sanhedrin 20 – red Chapter 2, Mishna 2, 3 Can king join a funeral procession? If king is a mourner, does he sit on low chair? Do women go in front or behind funeral bier? What is relevance …
#1828 – Sanhedrin 19 – blue Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Can high priest be part of funeral procession of close relative? Does he have to stay in the Holy Temple? How can others console the high priest? How can high …
#1827 – Sanhedrin 18 – green Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Who judges High Priest if he transgresses? Does High Priest perform halitza? Does High Priest leave Temple to attend burial of close relatives? How does a High Priest mourn? Can …
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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