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, 12pm 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 8, Mishna 2 Why did the Sadducees claim a daughter inherits alongside a granddaughter? Who refuted this claim, and how? Why is it so important for men to have sons? What happens if they don’t? Between a surviving uncle …
🛎 AT Daily! #1748-1749 👨‍⚖️ Aid & Abet In Night Court 🪟 Bava Basra 114-115Chapter 8, Mishna 1, 2 What is the relevance of “on the day” re: distributing inheritances? When can visitors to dying person sign/witness the will? If three visit a dying person, can they convene a court to hear testimony? What …
Chapter 8, Mishna 1 How is inheritance transferred from one tribe to another? Why is it discouraged for woman to marry man from a different tribe? How do we know that husband inherits from wife? Why do we need two …
Chapter 8, Mishna 1 Does mother inherit from son the way father inherits from son? From where are these matters derived? How can daughter inherit land from more than one tribe? When does son inherit and when does daughter inherit? …
Chapter 8, Mishna 1 What does it mean that one should cleave to good people? Why was descendant of Moses an idolator but descendant of Aaron was righteous? Isn’t Pinchas also descended from Yitro? What is considered a good family? …
Chapter 8, Mishna 1 Who inherits in the absence of a will? When do half-brothers inherit from each other? What is the order of relatives’ inheritance rights? If a man dies and has no son, who gets inheritance? Why do …
Chapter 7, Mishna 4, 5 If two brothers divide father’s estate and then creditor takes portion from one? Do brothers who divide property have joint responsibility for paying father’s debts? To make sure brothers have equal value, is original division …
Chapter 7, Mishna 4 What is significance of “until 1/6” re: whether refund goes to buyer? When does sale stand? Is precisely 1/6 likened to more than 1/6 or less than 1/6? What is like a sale of orphan’s property? …
Chapter 7, Mishna 3 What is legal difference between “precise” and “more or less” of a beis kor? What if there are contradictory stipulations when selling land? What is relevance of renting land in a leap year? When do parties …
Key Dafs
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Topics covered: Three matters lengthen our years, three shorten, three things come only through great blessing: a good king, a good year, a good dream. A dream not interpreted is like a letter not read. Which dreams are fulfilled? …
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, 12pm Friday and about an hour after Shabbat ends every Saturday. For Jewish holidays, same schedule as Shabbat. All times Pacific.
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