Editing Pilpul (section)

== Recitation of Pilpul by Yeshiva Students ==
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The Rebbe demanded that yeshiva students engage in reciting and writing pilpulim (analytical discourses). When one student complained to the Rebbe that he lacked desire to study, the Rebbe responded that reciting pilpul would instill in him a desire for learning.

Accordingly, starting in 5719 (1959), a special schedule was established under the Rebbe's instruction, where seven outstanding students in revealed Torah and seven outstanding students in Chassidic studies would deliver a special pilpul lecture every Saturday night at the central Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva in 770.

In response to a student's question about how he could deliver a pilpul when he didn't know how, the Rebbe replied: "You present a question, you offer an answer, you look in a book – and a pilpul is created!..."