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Emunas, you and your Rabbi might feel like 2/3 1/3 is a good balance, but you’ve yet to address the simple fact that halacha disagrees with your feelings. The shulchan aruch harav, who os considered the “baal shmatsa,” or preeminent authority on hilchos talmud torah in even the yeshiva world, rules what one must learn, and chasidus/kabalah is NOT on the menu for people who are not experts in shas and poskim in terms of obligations. If you’re a man, you need to spend as much time as you have on shas and poskim, and learn chasidus for no more than an hour or so, if it’s for mussar, if it’s for yedios, then it has to be without a seder, which the taz rules in OC 307; more would be bitul Torah.
And if you’re a woman, well…if a woman can’t learn gemara, I can’t fathom how she’d be allowed to learn kabalah.