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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Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 2 Another Key Daf! We’ll be divided into three groups on the Day of Judgment. God tips the scales for most people in their favor because He is merciful, but there will be an accounting …
Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 2 Key Daf! Four times a year we’re judged for different purposes. Some say every day, some say every hour. How does Rosh Hashana connect to Yom Kippur? Which actions will cause us to be judged …
Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 2 A spectacular page! Apropos a verse about the end of days which explain why men and women celebrated separately during Sukkot in the Holy Temple, we enter an extended digression on the nature of …
Topics covered: Chapter 4, Mishna 2 Why do we say bless God for commanding us to perform a commandment that was actually instituted by the Sages, and which does not appear anywhere in the Torah? Which blessings do we say …
Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 4 The fine linen garments of the High Priest on Yom Kippur were fine indeed! Apropos the wealth of one High Priest who was also a Sage, Rabbi Elazar ben Harsum, we learn that one …
Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 6 People crowded on the Temple Mount for Festivals, yet they all had room to bow and confess privately. This leads to an AMAZING discussion of the ongoing miracles in the Holy Temple, especially the …
Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 What was the Ark of the Covenant? What was in it besides the Tablets of the Ten Commandments? Was the original Torah Scroll inside it too? Was there a second Ark that was carried …
Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 5 What is tumah, ritual impurity? How does to relate to tahara, ritual purity, and kedusha, holiness? How is tumah a acquired? How is it transmitted? What are its degrees? What are the consequences of …
Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 The first commandment is “Be fruitful and multiply.” If it only meant “Reproduce,” then “be fruitful” would be redundant. Be fruitful is the secret to life: bearing fruit is what we souls were …
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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