pilpul

The term pilpul was applied to this type of study.

Many 16th- and 17th-century rabbis were also critical of pilpul.

His legal method also resembles the mode of analysis known as pilpul.

He sought clear and logical explanations over complicated pilpul.

Many leading rabbis who opposed pilpul criticized its use in the hadran.

As such, pilpul has sometimes been derogatorily called bilbul, Hebrew for "confusion".

He refers only to one of the different kinds of pilpul current in his time, namely, the so-called "Norburger."

No, Mather didn't look to be the sort who'd appreciate argument by historical analogy or any such pilpul not that he'd know that word, either.

However, many people consider these methods too to be a form of pilpul, though the practitioners of the analytic method generally reject the term.

Rabbi Turetsky focuses classes on the pilpul, or logic, in the Talmud.

The Brisker method is highly analytical and is often criticized as being a modern-day version of pilpul.

Book of the Pilpul of the Torah.

"The Bach" was an adherent of the Kabbalah and an opponent of pilpul.

Authors referred to their own commentaries as "al derekh ha-peshat" (by the simple method) to contrast them with pilpul.

The term "pilpul" was increasingly applied derogatorily to novellae deemed casuistic and hairsplitting.

Pilpul has entered English as a colloquialism used by some to indicate extreme disputation or casuistic hairsplitting.

Rabbi Shmuelevitz was a renowned scholar and was a follower of the derech ha pilpul.

One of the four roshei yeshiva (deans) listens to a Pilpul, or talmudic discourse, from the applicant.

Pilpul is the in-depth analytical investigation of a topic, traditionally reserved for the profound nuances of Talmudic study.

Playfulness (cf. midrashic tradition of homiletic commentary, cf. the Jewish pilpul)

Oren Soffer There is No Place for Pilpul!

Greenwald eschewed pilpul and advised his students to acquire breadth and depth in the study of Torah and Gemara.

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.

I don't believe that the erudition of Sephardi rabbis is less worthy than the pilpul of Ashkenazi rabbis."

The Maharal of Prague in a famous polemic against Pilpul (Tiferet Yisroel, pg.