BRESLEV.CO.IL WHO'S AFRAID OF GEMARA

I know BT's (baalei teshuva, newly observant Jews) who served in US Special Forces Units and saw combat in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. I know plenty of BT's in Israel who served in the best combat units. I too am a BT with combat experience, having served in one of the IDF's leading infantry units. We all have overcome extreme tests of fear to function under fire. We all took a lot of flak and met resistance from friends and family when we became baalei teshuva. Yet, many of us have this inexplicable fear of Gemara. What scares us? The Aramaic? The logic, which is so different from modern way of thinking? Why do we lack confidence? Rabbi Lazer Brody, who taught me how to "attack" a page of Gemara, says that the Yetzer Hara