I know the literature in a general way, but I’m looking for a book where the methodology is clearer, so that it’s easier to extract patterns of analysis. Does the Rabbi have a recommendation?
Maybe I’ll phrase it a bit differently: suppose I weren’t familiar with this literature—what book would the Rabbi recommend to advance familiarity with the field, and especially to learn the method of working?

Thank you very much

For systematic books, you surely know Sha'arei Yosher and Shev Shemat'ta, but it’s worth adding Rabbi Amiel’s books, of course. Also Rabbi Reines’s book (I forgot its name), and perhaps the books of Rabbi Yosef Engel (though there the structure is fairly simple: one distinction with many practical ramifications). There is a book called Iyun Be-Lomdut that is worth looking at, and also the books of Rabbi Lichtenstein of blessed memory.

M., hello—if you’re from Jerusalem and looking for a study partner once a week to clarify analytical Talmudic topics by subject, I’d be happy for you to contact me at ,giladstn@gmail.com (and in general for exchanging information in this area). Maybe it would suit you, because just like you I was planning to ask Rabbi Michael Abraham—who wrote ten books on Talmudic logic (and it requires investigation why he didn’t recommend them)—what the efficient way is to acquire this conceptual methodology. Maybe the booklets of Eyal Razenkovitz, eyalraz9@gmail.com, from Yeroḥam Yeshiva, would also help you. They’re built on a systematic presentation of analytical topics. There is a book by the Rosh Yeshiva of Ateret Israel, Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi, on the method of lomdus (I’ll check the name later), and there is also Blazer’s interesting dissertation on Rabbi Shimon Shkop, where he also surveys his analytical method. If you discover other things, I’d be happy to hear. And it really is astonishing that there isn’t any academic or other course on the foundations of analytical yeshiva-style thinking, and may it be God’s will that Rabbi Michi create this glove that only he could also pick up.

Thanks to Gil. Not Blazer but Wozner (Shai A. Wozner). Indeed, a very highly recommended book. I didn’t recommend my books because they’re only on Amazon and rather expensive. And besides, a baker does not testify about his own dough.

M.,
I recommend studying the novellae of Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky.
He is a brilliant analyst and in my view the clear successor of Rabbi Shimon.
It seems to me that Michi would endorse that with both hands.

Therefore I came to add, all the more so, for our master Rabbi Shmuel, of blessed and saintly memory, the great head of the exile and master of the law, certainly does not need my endorsement or that of anyone like me. But a recommendation for his works already seemed to me quite unnecessary for someone who is familiar with the literature of the later yeshiva-style authorities.