[Avodah] brisk

[Eli Turkel]

<<It is difficult for me to imagine how Gemara could possibly NOT be
an intellectual challenge.

Correction: I CAN'T imagine how Gemara could possibly not be an
intellectual challenge.

Anyone who is so intelligent that he doesn't find Gemara to be
challenging... wow! I know that I'm not the brightest guy in the
class, but now I'm *really* impressed!>>

Difficult is not the same as challenging. I remember once learning
with a friend one of the modern books
on hilchot kashrut. He gave up after a short time as everything seemed
to be a bunch of dsitinct laws
and it was more memorization than thinking.

One of the hard parts of learning kdshin is that much of it seems to
be learning of pesukim
without a logical base (at leats before Brisk -) )
Much of mesechet shabbat is also details rather than a few principles.

The yeshiva world goes around the 3 babas, gittin and few other such
gemarot because they
have more "meat" in them

kol tuv

-- 
Eli Turkel