Q&A: A Method of Analysis
A Method of Analysis
Question
By what method does the Rabbi study the Talmud analytically?
Answer
I don’t have a method. The Yardenaim had a method. Or alternatively, a standing method.
Discussion on Answer
With God’s help, this is Hanukkah, 81.
Yishai — greetings,
See column 317, “On the Pilpul Method and the Rules of Discourse,” where Rabbi Michael Abraham distinguishes between the systematic learning method of Ponevezh and the “non-systematic” learning method of Slabodka.
Best regards,
Yaron Fish”l Korinaldi
And it may be suggested that the method of the Yardenaim parallels the Slabodka method, which “shoots in all directions like shot and like a pomegranate,” whereas the unified method that operates according to a fixed algorithm, and therefore can predict the future, parallels the Ponevezh method 🙂
What do you mean, I don’t have a method? Does the Rabbi learn in the Brisker style or in some other way?