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 4, Mishna 1 What kinds of sacrifices require their blood to be placed at the base of the altar?How do the Sages distinguish between offerings that require their blood on the inner altar and those on the outer altar?What …
Chapter 4, Mishna 1 If only one act of blood application is performed instead of four, is the offering still valid?Do the two major schools disagree about how many placements of blood are required for a sin-offering versus other types …
Chapter 4, Mishna 1 When is the moment that a person bringing offering achieves atonement?If sin offering requires four placements, how many placements are necessary to facilitate atonement?What about Yom Kippur offerings whose blood is to be placed on inner …
Chapter 3, Mishna 1 What renders an offering pigul?What if person brings offering and at time of slaughter he plans to eat it beyond the designated time?What if he thinks there will be something left for him to eat but …
Chapter 3, Mishna 1 If someone brings non kosher animal as offering, is he liable for flogging?Is flogging a punishment for transgressing a positive or a negative commandment?Can an undomesticated animal be kosher?Can an undomesticated animal be brought as an …
Chapter 3, Mishna 1 Is partial entry into Temple courtyard considered an entry?Is tamei person who reached into Temple courtyard liable for flogging?Is entry with any part of the body considered an entry?What if person has seminal emission and goes …
Chapter 2, Mishna 5, Chapter 3, Mishna 1 If one had improper intent re time concerning less than an olive’s bulk (kezayit) of the offering, is the sacrifice rendered pigul?And if one had intent for multiple small portions that together …
Chapter 2, Mishna 5 What is the general principle regarding one who sprinkles the blood of a sacrifice in the wrong place or at the wrong time?Which specific act fulfills the obligation of atonement for the owner?What is the law …
Key Dafs
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Topics covered: Why can we make up a missed Amidah but not a Shema? Rabba’s insight could uproot mountains, Rav Yosef’s knowledge encompassed the entire tradition since Sinai. Which takes precedence? Torah scholars increase peace in the world 🌎 …
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, 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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