Haschalas Gemara: Overcoming Challenges and Building Skills Step-by-Step

Learn tools and techniques for laying the groundwork for a lifetime of successful Gemara learning! In this presentation, Rabbi Aaron Spivak addresses the challenges faced by those new to learning Gemara and provides concrete tools for overcoming them. The difficulties discussed in this presentation include the fact that; the Gemara does not have Nekudos, it is written in an unfamiliar language, it is formatted as endless homogenous pages, it requires a thinking process which is unfamiliar to the students and finally, students are often unclear about what is being accomplished by the Shakla V’tariya. After providing practical tools for dealing each of the above-mentioned obstacles, Rabbi Spivak makes a great presentation exceptional by demonstrating just how to implement the techniques that he discussed. This is accomplished by presenting actual pieces of Gemara and “teaching” them to the audience as he would to his own Talmidim. The video runs for a little over an hour and is recommended for those inexperienced in teaching Haschalas Gemara and for veteran Mechanchim alike!