Your Chavrusa

Rav Yechezkel Abramsky zt"l once completed a lecture on Tractate Shavuos late on Shavuos night. The students expected an uplifting closing message. Instead, he removed his glasses and began to cry. “The Tanna Devei Eliyahu says that when someone studies Torah, Hashem sits opposite him and learns together with him.” He looked at them and asked, “Do you understand what that means? Even if you study alone, the Creator of the Universe is your chavrusa.” And he wept again.

That Shavuos night became one that his students would never forget.