Reply To: Derech Halimud

I personally do not think there was an active decision to go slow. I think it sort of evolved. My rebbi was all suprised pesach time when we only got up to daf vav. He said 7 years ago we got to daf ches. I think it happened when all the rosh yeshivos’s shiurim were printed. In reb shmuel’s shiur they learned only reb shmuel’s mehalach but we learn reb shmuel, reb shlomo, reb dovid, the dvar yaakov, ohel tora, reb ruevain etc. mehalach.