Reply To: How are girls learning Gemorah

keith > He returns the next day and asks “is it OK for me to learn Torah while I’m smoking?” “Of course!”

I heard an actual story about, I think, R Yaakov Kamenetsky. The student brought tea to the Rav while they were learning. The rav did not finish the tea by the time they finished learning. The student asked why the Rav is not drinking. Rav explained that they stopped learning. Student suggested to learn another blatt. Rav explained: I drink to learn. I do not learn to drink.