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.
-
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 When do we suspect idolators of engaging in bestiality?Can we purchase a red heifer from an idolator?Who was Dama ben Netina?Can we induce the conception of a red heifer?Has morality increased in the world? Opening song: …
Chapter 2, Mishna 1 When do we suspect non-Jews of engaging in bestiality?When do we suspect that an animal was set aside for idolatry?When can one purchase animal for use as an offering from idolator and not have concern that …
Chapter 1, Mishna 9, 10 Can one rent a house or field to a non-Jew in the land of Israel?Can one sell a house to gentile in the land of Israel?What about outside the land of Israel?Can one rent a …
Chapter 1, Mishna 8, 9 When has student reached the level to issue legal decisions?Until when is a scholar considered too immature to render legal decisions?What is relevance of Psalm 1?Whose “leaf does not wither”?What conversations are the leaves of …
Chapter 1, Mishna 8 How did Rabbi Meir rescue his sister-in-law (daughter of Rabbi Hanania ben Teradyon) from enslavement in Roman brothel?How did Rabbi Meir escape capture by the Romans?Is it OK for a Jew to go to Roman circus …
Chapter 1, Mishna 8 What happened when Rabbi Eliezer was arrested and charged with heresy?Why was he acquitted?How did Eliezer handle going through this terrible ordeal?Can money used for prostitute be used to purchase offering for Holy Temple?Can it be …
Chapter 1, Mishna 7, 8 What can’t be sold to an idolator that can be used for war?Is it prohibited to sell produce to gentile that might be used to feed their army?Can a horse be sold to a gentile?Can …
Chapter 1, Mishna 5, 6 Can one sell a damaged animal to idolator before festival?Can one buy/sell a horse for riding on Shabbos?Can one sell or lend an ox to non-Jew if he will use it on Shabbos?May one sell …
Key Dafs
-
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.
Sign me up!
Our newsletter goes out about twice a month, with links to our most popular posts and episodes.