Amal hatorah, horvanya, adam ki yamus b’ohel etc etc. As some posts above say, en HKBH moneh hadafim elah hashaos. The ground we cover is completely irrelevant. All H’shem counts is the time put in to learning. Anu amelim umkablim sechar… We get sechar only for the amal. How many countless stories are there of gedolim fasting and crying for several days at the kever of a tzadik to help understand a small piece of gemara or a tosfos etc. Therefore yes it is better if one can horova over a piece of gemara rather than to ‘sit with ones feet up’ as it were, and read off the translation, in any language! I challenge anyone to find any rav who disagrees with this. This is the IDEAL method. Of course there IS a place for translations, where necessary. But the less the better!
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