The idea of Rav Nachman of Breslov about bekiut—i.e., learning fast (just saying the words outloud, and in order, and going on).

The idea of Rav Nachman of Breslov about bekiut—i.e., learning fast (i.e.,just saying the words outloud, in order, and going on). That is the famous number 76 in the book, “Conversations of Rav Nachman.” My own experience with this was that as soon as I stepped into a Litvack Yeshiva Shar Yashuv, I was inundated with the idea of learning in depth, while "bekiut" (fast learning) seemed to most people to be a waste of time. (Side note: Litvack or Lithuanian yeshivas go with the approach of the Gra from Villna.) But I found a sort of balance between fast learning and in-depth learning. [I knew very little Hebrew then, so I used the excellent translation of the Soncino edition.] However, for some reason, I never found a place in the Litvack world, probably because of my non-conformist kind of character, so I could not be in kollel, and so to make a living I went to the Polytechnic Institute of N.Y.U. to major in Physics;-- and interestingly enough, there also this method of learning of saying the words outloud and in order was very helpful. So, in conclusion, I would like to recommend to people to learn those three paragraphs in the book, “Conversations of Rav Nachman” section #76 about the learning fast. —I might add here that in those days, I did not have the books of Rav Shach or Rav Nacchum of the Mir. So, to do in depth learning, I mainly concentrated on the Maharsha and Pnei Yehoshua. -----if you would like my recommendation about what to learn at first, I think doing a few pages of gemara with Tosphot and Maharsha every day makes sense, until u have gone through Shas at least once. Then to get the books of Rav Shach, Issar Meltzer, Shmuel Rozovski of Ponovitch, and Nachum of the Mir. [Years have gone by from those days, however I still find the advice of Rav Nahman to be of amazing benefit in learning, Torah anD in my other short sessions in Math and Physics.