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Pilpul (Hebrew: פלפול,
loosely meaning 'sharp analysis'; from פִּלְפֵּל (pilpel) 'pepper') is a
method of
studying the
Talmud through intense textual analysis...
- of
contradiction within the Talmud. The term
pilpul was
applied to this type of study.
Usage of
pilpul in this
sense (that of "sharp analysis") harks...
- from Bohemia,
particularly from the
school of
Jacob Pollak, the
creator of
Pilpul ("sharp reasoning").
Shalom Shachna (c. 1500–1558), a
pupil of Pollak, is...
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founder of the
Polish method of
halakhic and
Talmudic study known as the
Pilpul. He was born
about 1460 or 1470 in Poland, and died at
Lublin in 1541. He...
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kabbalistic emphasis on
Mishnah study and as a
reaction against the
methods of
pilpul; it was
aided by the
spread of Bertinoro's
accessible Hebrew Mishnah commentary...
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whether the
emphasis would be
placed on beki'ut (breadth) or
iyyun (depth).
Pilpul, a type of in-depth
analytical and
casuistic argumentation po****r from...
- such a response—often with
lightning speed—is a
modest reproduction of the
pilpul process. The May Laws
introduced by Tsar
Alexander III of
Russia in 1882...
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tractate in sequence,
using pilpul (incisive analysis) to
connect the
ideas in the two places. A
special literature of
hadran pilpul began appearing at the...
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pupil of
Jacob Pollak,
founder of the
method of
Talmudic study known as
Pilpul. In 1515
Shachna established the
yeshiva in Lublin,
which had the third...
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requisite knowledge. One of the four
roshei yeshiva (deans)
listens to a
Pilpul, or
talmudic discourse, from the applicant. This part of the exam is to...
