QUESTION:
1) The more of an internal person I’ve become, the more quiet I need. I love to learn in a quiet place, especially in my house with no one around. But I know that I really need to learn in the beis midrash. But if I learn in a packed Beis Midrash where everyone is learning and the voice of Torah resounds throughout the Beis Midrash, it becomes like static and the noise doesn’t bother me, I still get distracted from all the many people that are there and I stop focusing on my learning. For that reason I like to learn in a quiet Beis Midrash, but the problem there is that any small sound will bother me a lot. I love learning in an absolutely quiet Beis Midrash but then as soon as I hear a person learning and talking or humming, I get annoyed and I can’t focus. I don’t know which of these distracts me more. What does the Rav advise [learning privately in my house where I have quiet, or learning in a Beis Midrash]?
ANSWER:
It is better to learn in the Beis Midrash.
QUESTION
2) What about if a person learns better with a laptop, and all day he can sit and learn peacefully on his laptop, whether he’s learning with it in his house or in the beis midrash? Is this not recommended, because usually a person learning all the time on his laptop doesn’t audibly voice his learning, plus his family just sees him all day learning on his laptop and it looks to them like a person staring at a screen every day?
ANSWER
He should make sure to learn at least for some of his time from an actual sefer.
QUESTION
2) What about if a person learns better with a laptop, and all day he can sit and learn peacefully on his laptop, whether he’s learning with it in his house or in the beis midrash? Is this not recommended, because usually a person learning all the time on his laptop doesn’t audibly voice his learning, plus his family just sees him all day learning on his laptop and it looks to them like a person staring at a screen every day?
ANSWER
He should make sure to learn at least for some of his time from an actual sefer.
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