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46. For example, is kal vachomer an example of an Aristotelian syllogism or an inductive-analogical form of reasoning? Aviram Ravitsky offers a comprehensive summary of the scholarship on the midot, primarily that which has taken place among traditional rabbinical authors but also with a look to contemporary academic researchers as well; see his Logikah aristotalitumetodologikah talmudit(Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2009). See also Avraham(note 41, above).
47.See Menachem Elon , Jewish Law: History, Sources, and Principles, Translated from the Hebrew by Bernard Auerbach and Melvin J. Sykes(Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society , 1994), p. 947:“The judgments and the conduct of a recognized halakhic authority are understood to be the result of his profound understanding of the Halakhah , his ability to discern the similarities and distinctions between cases,
48. Rashbam ad loc. reads gemara in place of limud. However, the reading most frequently attested in the MSS and in the rishonim is talmud. See Dikdukei Soferim ad loc.
ad she-yomeru lo halakhah lema-aseh.
50. See Rashbam , B. Bava Batra 130 b, s.v. beterifot.
51. Yad Ramah, Bava Batra 130b, s.v. seifa debaraita, end. 52. Resp. HaRosh 78:3.
53. Rashi, B. Sukah 28b, s.v. vetanoyei. See also Or Zarua 11, Hilkhot Sukah, ch. 304.
54. See Sefer Me'irat Einayim to Shulchan Arukh Choshen Mishpat 237, no. 1: a public declaration of his wickedness is made in the synagogue.
55. Shulchan Arukh Choshen Mishpat 237:1.
56. Rashi, B. Kidushin 59a, s.v ani hamehafekh bechararah; Tosafot ad loc., s.v. ani; and see especially Chidushei HaRitva, Kidushin 59a.
57. Yad, Ishut 9:17, and see the commentators ad loc.