Reply To: For PF to Vicariously Rant Endlessly About the Over-Emphasis of Iyun through PAA

“And yet their lesser peers, who worship their every word, oddly enough did not change the way their yeshivos learn! And wait – in their OWN Yeshivos it’s not so much different. Hmn…”

While it is not my job to justify why people don’t follow the Roshei Hayshiva, I would venture to postulate that there is simple reason: The style of Iyun is enjoyable – klerring chakiros and zugging chiddushim. It is stimulating and does not particularly require being ???? ????. Whereas gaining and retaining broad knowledge of shas is tedious, hard, repetitive, and requires extreme diligence. It is therefore much easier and geshmak to learn Iyun.