Hi Rabbi, I have a serious question. I am 14, and Baruch HaShem Hashem gave me a chavruta to learn with throughout the day. The thing is, when we started doing chazara on the first perek of Berachot, we started getting into a lot of arguments on certain things. For example, The Gemara says that abba binyamin says that if one leaves his friend while praying, his prayer gets tossed aside. My friend would say that this would apply these days, while I would say that it doesn’t apply to today’s generation, because no one is scared of demons back them these days. So my friend would take a long amidah, and I would leave, since I looked at it as an opportunity to listen to the Rabbis shiurim while walking home instead of talking shtuuot with my friend. Now this is just one problem. Unfortunately for me, my friend used to learn all of the time during the afternoon with books. But now he learned from me, where I would listen to shiurim throughout the afternoon, since it was hard for me to learn with books for an entire day. But the thing is, my friend is able to learn a whole day with books. But now my friend is learning from me, and I tried to convince him to learn from books again. But he said that since I don’t learn from books, why should he? Another thing is is that he’s been getting bored of our chazara, since he happens to be a very smart kid and he remembers it, so he says that it’s not so interesting. What should I do Rabbi? I don’t like to always be arguing with him about staying on topic of the Gemara,as he would sometimes just start telling me a different Gemara or some stories he learnt.I don’t know, maybe this chavruta is not for me? Or is it possible that we shouldn’t be doing chazara on the Gemara? Should we perhaps just move on? BeEzrat Hashem Hashem gave me the right words to the question. Please help me Rabbi. Thank you.

Asked on June 30, 2020