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A lecture on structured learning methods in Mishna, given by Rabbi Mendel Kessin.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Mendel Kessin’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
foreign who knows good it's a collections in specific paragraphs that's what it is okay one okay now there are when you learn now we know what do you have to know so you have all the breakdown case comes up principle sexual conditions derivation and then the synthesis that's analysis is the area of the category we have this address and the structure then you have variations of the case the sea out varies you can actually see how the principle changes and therefore the condo changes okay it's it's called the variational analysis or the analyze the variations because that's what you want to see you want to see how it changes how if you change some aspect of the case what happens to its principle and also this is what happens to its handle but then what happens you know it's very useful in any place in principle of almost depending on the case you know there's a broader law and there's a system or or answer there's three Broken Walls and one system or one of the system or the officer besides the fact that she's an HSR she's a system or what happens if she's you know she's also what happens if there's more than one wife all kinds of variations going on here see so what you really want to do ultimately is look at all the different variations from the simple to the complex and then then you manage to see how the whole thing flows it's really how you can pronounce market value okay so you have those eight categories now one of the categories of a mishna
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- 15:15absolutely no idea what's going on no no because there's no preliminary ideas there's no sequence…
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- 40:47Brothers I hope all of you did okay I would like um want to say yes…
- 46:16then there's the action on that object what do I do for instance Circle what's the…
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Mishna Intro 2 - Part 1 | The Method of Structured Learning51:02
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