Here’s a question I don’t see addressed in discussions of this topic. Perhaps having more regular breaks would help talmidim learn and understand what they learn deeper. Like maybe having a few weeks here and a few months there would actually help talmidim develop as bigger lamdanim and talmidei chachomim. Would yeshivas then say, ok, or would they say, af al pi that the breaks help, they’re still bittul Torah. Any thoughts?
As someone who’s learned in yeshiva before knows, you can’t be awesome without serious and complete dedication to learning, staying up in the beis medrash yomam valayla day after day, week after week. But it’s also important to sometimes have breaks, and do something else, either for a few minutes or a few days, or maybe even for a few weeks. Does that matter in this discussion? Like, in an ideal yeshiva would there never be any breaks at all?