PILPUL: ONE ENGAGES IN THE ART OF FICTIONALISM: LYING —“Pilpul is the Talmudic

PILPUL: ONE ENGAGES IN THE ART OF FICTIONALISM: LYING

—“Pilpul is the Talmudic term used to describe a rhetorical process that the Sages used to formulate their legal decisions. The word is used as a verb: one engages in the process of pilpul in order to formulate a legal point. It marks the process of understanding legal ideas, texts, and interpretations.”—

The purpose of pilpul is to find what is not there, or to place there what is not.

Pilpul is the origin of the art of lying.

The introduction of pilpul into anglo law was the means by which our constitution of natural law was destroyed.