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

“rather a much more complicated probably not emesdik way to learn that people just did to sharpen their minds. not because they thought it was emes but because it would make them sharp”

Walk into any Yeshiva and go over to a guy who is pilpuling and ask him if he thinks his pilpul is emes. If he doesn’t think that it’s emes then ask him why he is doing it. He will probably tell you that he is becoming a lamdan. I daresay that the objections to pilpul of old still apply to the way that many people learn today.