[Avodah] The MB, Minhagei Lita, and Temimos

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> Still catching up on old posts...
>
>
> Because the yeshiva thrives on lomdus, without which learning would be a
> lot less structured and less interesting. Therefore, they lean toward
> textualists.
>
> :-)BBii!
> -Micha
>

AISI the dichotomy is simpler

The Yeshivisher World has recently championed Mussar, Pietism, Frumkeit and
a quasi Hassidic iconization of G"dolim as trumping rigorous lamdus.  [ther
are excpetions, an dBrisk might be one]

While the Old Litvisher world championed Rigorous Lamdus and kocha d'heteira
addif and saw many humros as optional or even counter-productive

So the MB maps out well for the frummer, mystical, approach and the AhS maps
out close to the analytical approach.

I don't recall RDL's approach to Pesak but he was considered Novel im his
time in that he had talmiddim read rishonim [particuarly shita mekubbetzes]
in the shiur inside.  IOW a rigorous approach to textual analysis. in most
Yeshivos, Rishonim are "spoken out" and often not so precisely.

Bottom line, analytical types that I know all seem to prefer the AhS.

And FWIW I would push Tur-Beis Yosef for Beis Midrash level and above as
even better.

Good Shabbos

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