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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

398.0. "What's PILPILISTIC?" by DSSDEV::ROBINSON (Bill Robinson) Mon Aug 17 1987 08:28

    I read about "pilpilistic" arguments yesterday.  Does anyone
    know what the word means?  My Websters 9th New Collegiate
    doesn't have it.  It was refering to arguments in Hebrew writings,
    I think mostly in the Talmud.
    
    Bill

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398.1 Trivia BAEDEV::RECKARD Jon Reckard 264-7710 Mon Aug 17 1987 12:18 11

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398.1	Trivia	BAEDEV::RECKARD	Jon Reckard 264-7710	`Mon Aug 17 1987 12:18`	11
	Re: What's PILPILISTIC? I'll try for partial credit ... just to be first to answer. I learned about pilpul (note no second "i"). Pilpul was (still is for Hasidim?) discussion, usually long-winded and/or heated, about minute points of the law or doctrine that had little or no bearing on down-to-earth, real-life matter. I think a Christian example might be the how-many-angels-can-dance-on-the-head-of-a-pin question. Now, someone who knows what they're talking about - please expound.

    Re: What's PILPILISTIC?

    I'll try for partial credit ... just to be first to answer.

    I learned about pilpul (note no second "i").  Pilpul was (still is for
    Hasidim?) discussion, usually long-winded and/or heated, about minute
    points of the law or doctrine that had little or no bearing on
    down-to-earth, real-life matter.  I think a Christian example might be
    the how-many-angels-can-dance-on-the-head-of-a-pin question.

    Now, someone who knows what they're talking about - please expound.