Study with Awe That Breeds Toil

Study with Awe That Breeds Toil

Our actual study should be permeated with the awareness that “all of its principles, specifics, and fine minutiae were given at Sinai.” Bearing this in mind, our learning will resemble the original Giving of the Torah—concerning which our Sages state: Just as it was accompanied by awe and fear… back then [at Sinai], so too here [in our present-day study]… Moreover, this knowledge will inspire us to toil in our study of Torah—until, like the engraved tablets received at Sinai, the Torah’s teachings are “carved” into our soul.