Derech Tevunos
Ramchal's Ways of Reason gives every sentence of a sugya the move it makes. This draws those moves as a waterfall: a staircase of rows, a rail where a relation reaches back many rows, and folds that put settled argument behind a band.
Passages
11 passages, from a four-sentence ruling to a seventy-seven-sentence elimination. Open one to walk through it a sentence at a time.
- Pesachim 16a / 18b (Eng. col. 17b) Uncleanness of liquids 4 sentences · 2 movements
- Berachos 4a The promise and the fear 4 sentences · 3 movements
- Yebamos 104b Chalitzah of a mute 3 sentences · 2 movements
- Yebamos 112b Why a deaf-mute may marry and the insane may not 2 sentences · 2 movements
- Bava Metzia 21b-22b Despair that is not conscious 57 sentences · 18 movements
- Bava Kamma 83b An eye for an eye 15 sentences · 5 movements
- Sukkah 2a-2b Queen Heleni's sukkah 9 sentences · 2 movements
Research passages
The opening sugyot of four tractates, labelled from stock phrases for the study of nested folds and rails rather than taken from Ramchal's discussion. They are here so the folds inside folds, and the rail inside a rail, can be seen on the pages that produce them.