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

“I’m not arguing the point if bekiyus vs iyun. I’m arguing that diyukim in rishonim and achronim are within our mesorah. Saying otherwise is basically admitting you are an am haaretz, which I have no doubt you obviously are.”

By definition you are arguing the point of iyun vs. bekius because every moment spent doing one is a moment not spent doing the other. Now I have no problem with making diyukim in Rishonim and acharonim. But if you spend the majority of your learning time doing that you will never get anywhere and you won’t know anything. I have personally seen people hocking for a long time on these things when the it’s an explicit gemara one page away.

See the quotes that I have posted. The Gemara is very clear. You are supposed to first gain a breadth of knowledge before deep iyun. The Orchos Tzadikim and Maharal are even more clear. See what I posted about R’ Yaakov Kamenetzky and how they used to learn in Europe. I have no problem if people want to revamp the system. But when there are people who are learning the way the Gemara,Rishonim, and Acharonim describe, and you call them krum and stupid and against the mesorah…