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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...
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reached its
height in the 16th and 17th
centuries when
expertise in
pilpulistic analysis was
considered an art form and
became a goal in and of itself...
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pious men, and
engaged in
different mystic practises. He
justifies pilpulistic methods, and
finds even for the
habit of
gesticulations at
Talmudic dis****tions...
- In it the
works of
earlier commentators are
discussed and
somewhat pilpulistically developed.
Mekor chayim,
commentary on
Shulchan Aruch,
Orach Chayim...
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known by his
students as one. His
research illustrates a
unique usage of
pilpulistic and
Talmudic investigation. It was his new halakhic-historic approach...
- casuistry,
Reggio rejected aggadic Biblical interpretations and the
pilpulistic study of the Talmud. He was ****cuted by many
German rabbis on account...
- (Maharya) and his
student Rabbi Israel of Brno. Weil
approved of the
pilpulistic method only as an aid to study, but
rendered legal decisions purely on...
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material for the
history of the Tosafists,
which is inters****d
among the
pilpulistic arguments of the main subject. His
chief historical work, "Kelilat Yofi...
- of
commentary on the Talmud.
Rather they were
primarily a
series of
pilpulistic connections between the
beginning and end of each
tractate and the beginning...
- ha-Shoham (Dyhernfurth, 1733). In his
rabbinical works,
Teomim uses
typical pilpulistic methodology. His
scholastic discourses are in
accordance with the vogue...
