Rav Shick started out as a regular teenager in Satmar. But he was working in in a printing shop. Leibel Berger had a car. So during non office hours Eliezer Shelomo would print up the books of Breslov and he and Leibel would go around offering them to people saying that they could have a book for any amount of charity money the person would be willing to pay. That made it impossible to make money for selling Breslov books. Rav Shick thought the teachings of Breslov were universal--that is for everyone. Leibel told me they sold in this way probably close to 1/2 a million books.
Later he started writing the small books and pamphlets.] And in general people from his group did a good amount of learning Torah.
[If you want to compare the actual amount of knowledge and understanding of Torah with people at the Mirrer yeshiva, Chaim Berlin, and Torah Vedaat in Brooklyn you would have to give first place the Mirrer and Chaim Berlin because Litvak yeshivas combined both approaches of deep learning in the morning and fast learning in the afternoon. Still the amount of learning going on in Rav Shick's crowd was impressive. And it was not just Talmud. In his crowd there were people, that had gone through all the Oral Law--Bavli Yerushalmi, Sifi Midrash Raba, the Zohar, all the writings of Isaac Luria and Moshe Cordovaro (the Remak) and rishonim that you have never even heard of. like the "Egoz".]
People that make fun of this method you can ask yourself how much they really learn? I remember even Reb Shmuel Berenbaum (The Rosh Yeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva) in the afternoon session used to fly through many pages [with of course Rashi and Tosphot.] That was until he started learning with a learning partner in the afternoon and that clearly caused him to slow down.
My suggestion with halacha is to do the Rambam, Tur, and Shulchan Aruch . That is to start out with the Rambam. Take one side of a page and read it word for word with the commentaries on the page. And the next day to start where you left off and go to the next page until you have finished the entire Rambam with the Kesef Mishna and Raadvaz, the Magid Mishna and all the other commentaries on the page. Then do the same with the Tur, Beit Yosef and Bach. Then the same with the Shulchan Aruch with the Magen Avraham and Taz.
Later he started writing the small books and pamphlets.] And in general people from his group did a good amount of learning Torah.
[If you want to compare the actual amount of knowledge and understanding of Torah with people at the Mirrer yeshiva, Chaim Berlin, and Torah Vedaat in Brooklyn you would have to give first place the Mirrer and Chaim Berlin because Litvak yeshivas combined both approaches of deep learning in the morning and fast learning in the afternoon. Still the amount of learning going on in Rav Shick's crowd was impressive. And it was not just Talmud. In his crowd there were people, that had gone through all the Oral Law--Bavli Yerushalmi, Sifi Midrash Raba, the Zohar, all the writings of Isaac Luria and Moshe Cordovaro (the Remak) and rishonim that you have never even heard of. like the "Egoz".]
People that make fun of this method you can ask yourself how much they really learn? I remember even Reb Shmuel Berenbaum (The Rosh Yeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva) in the afternoon session used to fly through many pages [with of course Rashi and Tosphot.] That was until he started learning with a learning partner in the afternoon and that clearly caused him to slow down.
My suggestion with halacha is to do the Rambam, Tur, and Shulchan Aruch . That is to start out with the Rambam. Take one side of a page and read it word for word with the commentaries on the page. And the next day to start where you left off and go to the next page until you have finished the entire Rambam with the Kesef Mishna and Raadvaz, the Magid Mishna and all the other commentaries on the page. Then do the same with the Tur, Beit Yosef and Bach. Then the same with the Shulchan Aruch with the Magen Avraham and Taz.
