From Confusion to Clarity: A System for Learning Tosafot | Intro to Talmud Learning 6

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Peretz Segal’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. It's great to have you all here today. And you know what I'm saying? Maybe guys, if you can move over a bit there so we can get more people into the room. Yeah, you're going to have to stand. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. We are trying to get a bigger space. Okay. So, let's uh Let's go on because until now we have Let's go on because until now we have used our method of analysis which is structure papa paralleling to the input processing and output phase. We've used it for Mishna. We've used it for Gamora. We've used it for Rashi and the commentators called them. And now we're going to use it for tosis. Tus. So as we mentioned previously, Tus is not the same as other isim. not the same as other isim. Tostas is the category, the genre of what's called the makshim. The makshim are those that their goal is to sort out problems in the suga. Their goal isn't to fill in the missing pieces, not to complete unfinished sentences. Their goal is to look at the suga with an analytical eye and saying does this make sense in its own right and does this make sense with everything else in shas. So in order to learn toisus we need a So in order to learn toisus we need a strategy of approach because when we start to see the actual structure of toisus it's way more similar to a gammorra than it is to a commentator. In fact, very often choices will be an extrapolation or an extension of the Gmorra itself. Of course, like all rishim, we have to be loyal to the first four stages which are always geography locating in the flow of the Gumora where

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