Unpublished article. The following is the abbreviated version of Luzzatto’s remarkable introduction to Talmudic method as found in the new Jerusalem edition (1976) of Malachi Ha-Kohen’s Yad Malakhi. The treatise itself is somewhat longer (latest edition by J. Weinfeld, Jer., 1976) but this version contains all the main material on the subject. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto…