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A Torah shiur on Tzom Gedaliah, covering the Mishna method, analysis, synthesis, and structure.
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and then elaborate on the essence and you begin to see how everything relates. That's what structure is. It's the ability to see how A relates to B. Even if A is on one side of the board and B is on the other. So with that type of information, the brain begins to see tremendous um ways to create new understandings, new relationships. You see, because many people cannot organize for structure. So they have to rely on your brain grabbing it by an experience. I'm not, you know what I'm saying? But as far as I'm concerned, the brain excels in understanding. It excels. That's what it's for. You know, the, you know, with the ability to look at something and then define it. What is it? How is it connected to everything else? What's the ultimate purpose of the entire operation? The brain, that's what it does best. It also does if you if you give it an experience but that experience is a fragment and then you give it another experience and that's a fragment right after a while it will seek a pattern between the fragments you see but that's slow and and what's a good way it's just a slow way and it never equals >> it's hit or miss >> yeah it's hit or miss and it it's slow it's hit or miss but but it never with the word it never truly grasps. If something however is presented as a essential fundamental structure, the grasp is immediate and it's all the
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