Struggling With Learning [#15742]

I am a baal teshuvah and recently moved to Eretz Yisrael. I love to learn hashfakah and mussar and am very into self-awareness and learning about the nefesh and about pnimiyus etc. But I struggle with learning Gemara. Every time I learn, it’s a struggle…any advice to help me?

You are praiseworthy for being zocheh to come to learn Torah in Eretz Yisrael. It is important that your basis should be learning Gemara b’iyun (in-depth) according to your level, and to go from sugya to sugya. And write down your summaries and conclusions of each sugya. Also have fixed times every day for learning bekiyus (simplistic learning) so that you can learn and know perek after perek, and Masechta after Masechta. You can still be involved with developing your inner world of pnimiyus but it must be balanced with learning Gemara, and when it comes to learning these matters you should also write down your summaries and conclusions, on each topic you learn. Be strong, be strong, rise and succeed! Blessed are you in coming here!