citations missing date July 2008 The Hebrew term pilpul Hebrew language Hebrew wikt , from pepper, loosely meaning sharp analysis refers to a method of studying the Talmud through intense textual analysis in attempts to either explain conceptual differences between various halakha halakhic rulings or to reconcile any apparent contradictions presented from various readings of different texts. ref 2000 years of Jewish history p170 Chaim Schloss 2002 Jews in Eastern Europe Part II The word pilpul comes from the Hebrew word for pepper ref Pilpul has entered English language English as a colloquialism used by some to indicate extreme disputation or casuistry casuistic hairsplitting. This usage has especially fallen into use among critics of Haredi Jews, impugning their Talmud study as non productive. Sources The requirement for close derivation of the conceptual structures underlying various halakha Jewish laws , as a regular part of one s Torah study , is described by Maimonides Mishne Torah Yad HaChazakah , Sefer Madda , http www.mechon mamre.org i 1301.htm Laws of Torah Study , http www.chabad.org library article cdo aid 910973 jewish Chapter One.htm 1 11 as follows cquote ... Talmud, 30a, s.v. Talmud . Narrow definition In the narrower sense, pilpul refers to a method ... unlikely readings of proof texts . As such, pilpul has sometimes been derogatorily called bilbul ... polemic against Pilpul Tiferet Yisroel , pg. 168 , states that It would be better to learn carpentry ... eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, pilpul in this narrow sense was largely superseded by the analytic ... Brisker derech . However, many people consider these methods too to be a form of pilpul , though ... the old and the new kinds of pilpul were popular among Lithuania n and Poland Polish Jews. Since then, they have ... Pilpul , an article from the Jewish Encyclopedia Category Hebrew words and phrases Category Talmud concepts and terminology de Pilpul fr Pilpoul he it Pilpul pl Pilpul ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Chabad Hadran al HaRambam is Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson s commentary on Mishneh Torah . The book contains pilpul s on the ending passages of the Rambam . The book combines Nigla and Hasidic Judaism Chassidus in its approach to the text. See also List of commentaries on Mishneh Torah Maimonides DEFAULTSORT Hadran Al Harambam Category Chabad Lubavitch texts Category Commentaries on Mishneh Torah Chabad stub Reli book stub ... more details
Bilbul might be Bilbul or Bulbul , a member of the Pycnonotidae family of songbirds. Bilbul, a Persian word meaning a singer or poet. Bilbul, New South Wales , a village ten kilometres from Griffith, New South Wales Griffith . http www.about australia.com new south wales riverina destinations bilbul Ya qub Bilbul , a 19th century Jewish Iraqi poet. Pilpul , a method of studying the Talmud. disambig ... more details
Aaron ben Meir of Brest was a Lithuanian rabbi born about the beginning of the eighteenth century at Brest Litovsk , Russia died there Nov. 3, 1777. He was a descendant of the family of Katzenellenbogen Padua, and received his Talmudical instruction from Eliezer ben Eliezer Kolir , a well known Pilpulist and the author of a number of rabbinical works. Aaron carried the Pilpul method to its extreme limits, and was the author of Min at Aharon Aaron s Offering, Novydvor, 1792 , a work containing glosses on the Talmudic treatise Sanhedrin, and a masterpiece of rabbinical dialectics Pilpul . At the end of the work is an appendix, called Min ah Belulah, which contains responsa and commentaries on Talmudic topics. Some of his responsa may be found in the Me or Mayim ayyim Sudilkov, 1836 , a work by his grandson, Jacob Meir of Padua . Aaron s father was one of the leaders allufim of the Jewish community of Brest Litovsk and his signature is attached to a letter sent in 1752 by that community to Jonathan Eybesch tz assuring him of their support in his dispute with Emden. References Jewish Encyclopedia Category 18th century Lithuanian people Category Lithuanian rabbis Category 1777 deaths Category Lithuanian Jews Category People from Brest, Belarus Category Belarusian rabbis ... more details
Pollak is a surname, and may refer to Burglinde Pollak 1951&mdash , German athlete Jacob Pollak c. 1460&ndash 1541 , Polish rabbi, founder of the Pilpul method of halakic study Joachim Pollak 1798 1879 , Austrian rabbi Joel Pollak 1977 , American politician and author Jonathan Pollak 1982&mdash , Israeli anarchist Kay Pollak 1938&mdash , Swedish film director Kevin Pollak 1957&mdash , American comedian and actor Mimi Pollak 1903&ndash 1999 , Swedish actress Otto Pollak 1908&ndash 1998 , American sociologist See also Pollack surname DEFAULTSORT Pollak Category Slavic language surnames Category Jewish surnames Category History of Poland de Pollak fr Pollak it Pollak pl Pollak ... more details
Shalom Shachna died 1558 was a rabbi and Talmud ist, and Rosh yeshiva of several great Acharonim including Moses Isserles , who was also his son in law. Biography Shachna was a 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 largest Jewish community in Poland in this period. Shachna became famous as a teacher, and students came to Lublin from all over Europe to study there. The yeshiva became a center of learning of both Talmud and Kabbalah the Rosh yeshiva received the title of rector and equal rights to those in Polish universities with the permission of the King in 1567. This, as well as the great scholarship of those who studied there, have led some to refer to Lublin as the Jewish Oxford University Oxford . Shachna was succeeded as head of Lublin Yeshiva by Solomon Luria the Maharshal . Works Only one of Shachna s writings, the treatise Pesachim be Inyan Kiddushin has been published Shachna was known for his modesty, and enjoined his son Israel from printing any of his manuscripts. References reflist inline date February 2012 External links http www.jewishencyclopedia.com view.jsp?artid 537&letter S&search Shalom 20Shekna Shakna, Shalom , jewishencyclopedia.com http www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org jsource vjw Lublin.html The Virtual Jewish History Tour Lublin , jewishvirtuallibrary.org Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Shachna, Shalom ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1558 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Shachna, Shalom Category 1558 deaths Category Early Acharonim Category Polish rabbis Category 16th century rabbis Category Rosh yeshivas poland reli bio stub rabbi stub he pl Szalom Szachna ... more details
Simchah Simon ben Abraham Calimani d. August 2, 1784, Venice was a Venetian rabbi and author. He was a versatile writer, and equally prominent as linguistics linguist , poet, orator, and Talmudist . During his rabbinate Calimani was engaged as corrector at the Hebrew printing office in Venice. Among the great number of books revised by him was the responsa responsum of David ben Zimra RaDBaZ , to which he added an index, and the Yad aru im on Hebrew versification of Gerson efe , enriched with interesting notes of his own. Calimani was the author of the following works 1 II Rabbino Morale Toscano , an Italian translation of the Mishnah treatise Abot in collaboration with Jacob Saraval, Venice, 1729, often reprinted 2 Kelale Di du e Leshon Eber , a Hebrew grammar inserted at the end of the Bible, edited at Venice, 1739 3 Grammatica Ebrea , an Italian translation of the preceding work, Venice, 1751 Pisa, 1815 4 ol Sim ah Voice of Joy , an allegorical drama, with Jealousy, Folly, and Wisdom as the heroes, Venice, 1758 5 a Hebrew Italian dictionary, left unfinished. Calimani was liberal in his religious views, and took part in the campaign directed by Wessely against the delivery of casuistry casuistic lectures pilpul in the synagogues. References JewishEncyclopedia article Calimani, Sim ah Simon ben Abraham author Richard Gottheil and Isaac Broyd url http www.jewishencyclopedia.com view.jsp?artid 51&letter C See also Riccardo Calimani Venetian Ghetto Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Calimani, Simhah ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1784 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Calimani, Simhah Category 1784 deaths Category Italian rabbis Category Italian Jews Category Grammarians of Hebrew Category Talmudists Category 18th century rabbis it Simone Calimani he ... more details
For Maharam Shik see Moshe Shik . Me r ben Jacob Ha Kohen Schiff , 1608 1644 Hebrew called the Maharam Schiff , was a Germany German rabbi and Talmud scholar. Early life Me r Schiff was born at Frankfurt Frankfort on the Main in 1608. His father, Jacob Schiff, was director of the yeshiva at Frankfort until his death. At the age of seventeen Me r was called to the rabbinate of Fulda , where he had charge also of a number of pupils. There he composed, between 1627 and 1636, his commentaries, which covered the entire Talmud but only those on Betzah , Nashim Ketubot , Gittin , Bava Metzia , and Hullin , together with fragments on Moed Shabbat , Moed Megillah , Bava Kamma , Bava Batra , Sanhedrin Talmud Sanhedrin , and Zebahim , have been preserved. Teachings Schiff, being averse to pilpul , attacked not only contemporaries, like Solomon Luria Ket. 94 , Meir Lublin Me r of Lublin B. M. 61 , and Samuel Eidels Samuel Edels B. M. 50 , but even Rashi Ket. 42 , Isaac ben Sheshet Isaac b. Sheshet B. M. 48 , and Mordecai ben Hillel Mordecai B. M. 4 . He enters at once upon the discussion of his subjects, which he treats in detail though without digression nor does he attempt to derive his proofs from remote Talmudic passages. His explanations are often obscure on account of their extreme brevity, many sentences being incomplete. This was due to pressure of other demands on his time, since he was actively interested in the affairs of his community. He did not write his commentaries in note books, but on loose leaves of paper. He refers only to one of the different kinds of pilpul current in his time, namely, the so called Norburger. Apart from his Midrash halakha halakic commentaries, Schiff also composed sermons on the Pentateuch . In these he appears as an opponent of simple exegesis . He says, for instance, that Jacob must have been familiar with the explanation of Gen. xxv. 33 given by Rashi B. ., end . Of the sermons only a fragment on Deut. iv. has ... more details
Joel ben Samuel Sirkis also known as the Bach an abbreviation of his magnum opus, Bayit Chadash was a prominent Jewish posek and Halakha halakhist . He lived in central Europe and held rabbinical positions in Belz , Brest Litovsk and Krak w from 1561 1640. Biography Sirkis was born in Lublin in 1561. At age fourteen he went to the yeshiva of Solomon ben Judah . After remaining there some time he went to Brest Litovsk , where he attended the yeshiva of Rabbi Phoebus . While still a youth he was invited to the rabbinate of Pruzhany , near Slonim . Later he occupied the rabbinates of Lubkow , Lublin , Medzhybizh Medzyboz , Belz , Szydlowka , and finally Brest Litovsk and Krak w , succeeding in each of the two last mentioned places his teacher R. Phoebus. The Bach was an adherent of the Kabbalah and an opponent of pilpul . He was also critical of those who relied solely on the Shulchan Aruch for halachic decisions, rather than on the Talmud and the Geonim . He was the father in law of Rabbi David HaLevi Segal , who frequently refers to him in Turei Zahav , his Shulchan Aruch Major Commentaries commentary on the Shulchan Aruch . Rabbi Sirkis died in Krak w in 1640. Works Bayit Chadash New House , a reference to Deuteronomy 22 8, abbreviated as Bach , Rabbi Sirkis s best known work, is a major Close reading commentary on the Arba ah Turim of Jacob ben Asher . The work presents and elucidates the fundamental principles of the Torah as recorded in the Mishnah , the Talmud Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud s, and the Halakha Codes of Jewish law chief codes . Hagahot haBach Gloss es of the Bach suggestions for textual emendations in the Talmud and Rashi , copied from the notes that the author added to his copy of the Talmud. The Bach s notes are marked in the text as a letter in Rashi script within parentheses. Meshiv Nefesh , a commentary on the Book of Ruth , Lublin, 1616 needs clarification Rosh , first published, from a manuscript, in the Warsaw ... more details
Distinguish Lubavitch Yeshiva Gedolah of Johannesburg Yeshivah Gedolah of Johannesburg was one of the first Yeshivot established in South Africa . ref http www.tributetorabbigoldfein.co.za Files Doc Jewish 20Report.pdf SA Jewish Report ref Since its founding in 1973, it has played an important though understated role in the South African religious community ref http www.tributetorabbigoldfein.co.za Files Doc Jewish 20Report 20 20second 20article.pdf SA Jewish Report ref see History of the Jews in South Africa Jewish education in South Africa Jewish education in South Africa . It is based in Observatory, Gauteng Observatory , Johannesburg . It was established and headed by Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Azriel Goldfein until his death in 2007, and is now headed by Rabbi Goldfein s sons Rabbi Avi and Rabbi David Goldfein. Rabbi Goldfein was a lifelong talmid muvhak prominent student of Rabbi Mordechai Gifter . ref http www.tributetorabbigoldfein.co.za Files Doc Rabbi 20Y 20Rudomin.pdf Rabbi Rudomin tribute ref The Yeshivah follows the Telshe yeshiva Telshe educational model, although it accommodates students from across the Orthodox Judaism Streams of Orthodoxy spectrum of Orthodoxy . Rabbi Goldfein had a love of and profound knowledge of the writings of the Maharal of Prague ref http www.tributetorabbigoldfein.co.za Files Doc Rabbi 20Y 20Rudomin.pdf Rabbi Rudomin tribute ref and relatedly of Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner s Pachad Yitzchak ref http www.tributetorabbigoldfein.co.za Files Doc Rabbi 20Y 20Rudomin.pdf Rabbi Rudomin tribute ref and this, additionally, influences the Yeshiva s Hashkafa worldview , Orthodox Judaism Diversity within Orthodox Judaism beliefs within Orthodox Judaism . Yeshivah Gedolah is known for its uncomplicated approach to learning ref http www.tributetorabbigoldfein.co.za Files Doc In 20memorium.pdf Memorial article ref consistent with the Pilpul Opposition Maharal s approach to Torah study , and for its high standards ref http www.rabbis.org pdfs ApprovedYes ... more details
Moshe Greenwald 1853 1910 , also spelled Grunwald , was the Rabbi Rav of Khust Chust , Hungary and progenitor of the Puppa Hasidic dynasty Puppa Hasidic Judaism Hasidic dynasty through his five sons. He was also the author of Arugas Habosem , a book of Responsa In Judaism responsa covering a wide breadth of halakha halakhic issues. He was the eldest son of Rabbi Amram Greenwald 1831 1870 , one of the leading students of the Samuel Benjamin Sofer Ksav Sofer . His father, not wanting to enter the rabbinate, married his wife on that condition. ref name Hamaayan cite web url http www.acoast.com sehc hamaayan 9394 emor.934 title Pirkei Avot last first accessdate 2010 04 03 date 1994 04 30 publisher Hamaayan ref Rabbi Moshe was one of a group of students of the Ksav Sofer who took on Hasidic customs. ref name rosenblum cite web url http www.jewishbktown.com st Jewish inspirational books Reb Shraga Feivel.htm title Reb Shraga Feivel The Life and Times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, the Architect of Torah Life in America last Rosenblum first Yonasan accessdate 2010 04 03 year 2001 at Chapter 1 publisher ArtScroll Mesorah Publications, Ltd ref He was also a disciple of the second Belz Hasidic dynasty Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach . ref name world A World That Was , Hamodia Magazine, 18 March 2010, p. 7. ref Greenwald began his rabbinic career as the Rav and Beth din Officers of a beth din av beis din in Humenn , where he established a yeshiva . ref name rosenblum . From there he accepted the rabbanut of Kleinvergein, and in 1887 he moved to Chust, where he also headed a yeshiva. Among his favorite students in Chust were Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz , the future founder of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath . ref name rosenblum Greenwald eschewed pilpul but advised his students to acquire breadth and depth in the study of Torah study Torah and Gemara . ref name rosenblum Lineage Moshe Greenwald of Khust Chust author of Arugas Habosem Avraham Yosef Greenwald , Rav of Uzhhorod ... more details
Rabbi Jacob Pollak other common spelling Yaakov Pollack was the founder of the Polish method of halakic and Talmudic study known as the Pilpul born about 1460 died at Lublin in 1541. He was a pupil of Jacob Margolioth of Nuremberg , with whose son Isaac he officiated in the rabbinate of Prague about 1490 but he first became known during the latter part of the activity of Judah Minz d. 1508 , who opposed him in 1492 regarding a question of divorce. Pollak s widowed mother in law, a wealthy and prominent woman, who was even received at the Bohemia n court, had married her second daughter, who was still a minor, to the Talmudist David Zehner . Regretting this step, she wished to have the marriage annulled but the husband refused to permit a divorce, and the mother, on Pollak s advice, sought to have the union dissolved by means of the declaration of refusal mi un on the part of the wife, permitted by Talmudic law . Menahem of Merseburg , a recognized authority, had decided half a century previously, however, that a formal letter of divorce was indispensable in such a case, although his opinion was not sustained by the Oriental rabbis. When, therefore, Pollak declared the marriage of his sister in law null and void, all the rabbis of Germany protested, and even excommunicated him until he should submit to Menahem s decision. Judah Minz of Padua also decided against Pollak, who was sustained by one rabbi only, Me r Pfefferkorn , whom circumstances compelled to approve this course Judah Minz, Responsa, No. 13 Gr tz, Gesch. 2d ed., ix. 518 . Pollak had a further bitter controversy, with Minz s son Abraham, regarding a legal decision, in which dispute more than 100 rabbis are said to have taken part Ibn Ya ya , Shalshelet ha abbalah, ed. Amsterdam, p. 51a . After the accession of King Sigismund I in 1506, many Jews left Bohemia and went to Poland , founding a community of their own at Krak w . Pollak followed them, officiating as rabbi and organizing a school for the study ... more details
unreferenced date October 2010 Casriel Dovid Kaplin , 1931 2006 , was a rabbi and a dayan in the London Beth Din . He lived for much of his life in London , England . He published three volumes of his responsa as well as numerous scholarly articles, besides having many unpublished writings. Early years Casriel Dovid Kaplin was born in the East End of London in 1931 Chol Hamoed Sukkos 5632 to Jerusalem born Noach Kaplin, a grandson of Reb Nochum Magid who formerly held lectures in the Hurva Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem . During World War II the family was evacuated to Letchworth because of their dwelling s proximity to the London Docks , a major target of German bombing. He became barmitzva while living at Letchworth in later years he would bemoan the fact that he was not able to have his own personal tefilin at the ceremony. However, the pilpul discourse he delivered on the occasion of his barmitzva was heard by Rabbi Elya Lopian and Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky , two great Torah scholars who were living in Letchworth at the time. Rabbinate and scholarship After World War II Kaplin studied at Gateshead Talmudical College Gateshead Yeshiva . In 1952 he transferred to the Chevron Yeshiva for several years, after which he was accepted in Gateshead Kolel . He received semicha from Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer , Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, and Rabbi Shlomo Dovid Kahana. In 1960 Kaplin married the eldest daughter of Aharon Zucker of Stamford Hill . He continued his studies at Gateshead Kolel until 1965, when he was appointed as the rabbi of the Shomrei Hadath Synagogue, Hampstead , London. He had not been long in this position when he received a call to join the London Beth Din. London Beth Din Casriel Kaplin s first appointment was as a rabbi with the Federation of Synagogues . The London Beth Din then offered him a better job and he transferred there in the late 1960s, in a position he was to hold for the next thirty years. This proved to be ... more details
Rabbi Aryeh Leib Malin 1906 1962 was a Rabbi , Talmud ist, and Musar movement Mussar ist in both Europe and USA America . Biography Image RavPicture 058.jpg thumb right The burial place of Rabbi Malin on Har HaMenuchot Rabbi Malin was born in Mileitzitz near Bia ystok . In his early years, Reb Leib learned in Grodno under Rabbi Shimon Shkop . Later, he learned by Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman and Rabbi Baruch Ber Lebowitz . As an older student, Reb Leib learned in the Mir Yeshiva Poland Mir yeshiva where he gained a reputation as a prototype follower of lomdus a type of pilpul and a model of Musar movement mussar . In mussar, Reb Leib is a student of Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz . Rabbi Yechiel Michel Feinstein , a son in law of the Brisker Rav , said of Reb Leib that he had an ability to totally immerse himself into whatever talmudical tractate was being learned in Mir. At the request of Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer , Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel I Eliezer Yehuda Finkel , the Rosh Yeshiva of Mir, sent a group of his finest scholars to Brisk yeshivas Brisk to hear the Rav s lectures. Among the group that heard the Rav s shiurim on Kodoshim were Reb Leib,Reb Ephraim Mordechai Ginsburg, Reb Yonah Karpilov Yonas Eilem and, the Rav s future son in law Rabbi Yechiel Michel Feinstein . During this period, Reb Leib became especially close the Brisker Rav , who took a special liking to Reb Leib. Reb Leib was able to write many of the Brisker Rav s lectures which were later published in stencil form. He also was given special access to manuscripts of Rabbi Chaim Brisker . Rabbi Berel Povarsky of Ponevezh yeshiva who edited and published Reb Leib s writings Chidushei Reb Aryeh Leib branded his uncle s Torah as Brisker Torah meaning that it continues the tradition of Brisk. In Mir, Reb Leib was part of an elite group of students who attempted to serve as a model for proper behavior and learning. This group was highly respected by the leading posek , Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzensky and is still ... more details
. Pilpul During the 15th and 16th centuries, a new intensive form of Talmud study arose. Complicated ... pilpul was applied to this type of study. Usage of pilpul in this sense that of sharp analysis harks back to the Talmudic era and refers to the intellectual sharpness this method demanded. Pilpul practitioners ... by novel logical means. In the Ashkenazi Jews Ashkenazi world the founders of pilpul are generally ... Zaddikim Paths of the Righteous in Hebrew criticized pilpul for an overemphasis on intellectual acuity. Many 16th and 17th century rabbis were also critical of pilpul. Among them may be noted Judah ..., pilpul study waned. Other styles of learning such as that of the school of Elijah b. Solomon, the Vilna Gaon , became popular. The term pilpul was increasingly applied derogatorily to novellae deemed ... method to contrast them with pilpul. ref See Pilpul , Mordechai Breuer , in Encyclopedia ... of pilpul. Nevertheless, the influence of the Brisker method is great. Most modern day Yeshivot study ... more details
multiple issues COI June 2008 refimprove June 2008 peacock June 2008 Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner 1856 1924 , a prominent Hungary Hungarian Talmud ic scholar and communal leader, served as chief rabbi of Klausenburg Cluj from 1877 to 1923. In 1923 he left Klausenburg for Jerusalem where he resided until his death in 1924. He is best known as the author of Dor Revi i, a classic commentary on the tractate Hullin , and as a supporter of Zionism and a founder of Mizrachi religious Zionism Mizrachi . His father was Rabbi Avraham Glasner 1825 1877 , who preceded him as chief rabbi of Klausenburg, and was in fact his only teacher. His mother, Raizl n e Ehrenfeld , was the oldest granddaugher of the Chatam Sofer . Method of study A profound and innovative scholar, he was noted for his independence as a halakhic authority. He advocated a return to the method of study of the Rishonim pre 1500 CE rabbinic scholars whose way was to explain with crystal clearness, to examine, to search for truth without any respect for any person introduction to the Dor Revi i he opposed the method of pilpul casuistry that arose during the era of the Acharonim post 1500 CE scholars , saying pilpul is as far from the path of wisdom as East is from West id. and a weakness developed in the Galut during whose millennia of persecutions and migrations our capacity for straight thinking had been wellnigh destroyed . Similarly, in his monograph Ohr Bahir on the laws of mikva ot , he rejected halakhic reasoning based on esoteric sources or divine inspiration, arguing that only arguments that can be subjected to rational criticism and evaluated in terms of halakhic sources known to halakhic experts at large carry weight in arriving at halakhic decisions. His work also developed an innovative method in understanding and applying the code of Maimonides Rambam . Many of codifications of the Rambam had perplexed commentators because they seemed to be at odds with the relevant Talmudic sources. These seemingly a ... more details
iyyun , or the place given to pilpul the type of casuistic argumentation popular from the 16th ... spend a part of the daily curriculum learning Chabad Hasidic texts with pilpul . Pilpul is the in depth ... more details
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