Four things need strengthening: Torah, prayer, good deeds, and the way of the land," and this requires an explanation, and does the Torah need strengthening?! After all, about the reception of the Torah, it is written in Chazal, "The Lord will give strength to His people," the Torah is called "strength and strength," and prayer is also called in the words of Chazal in the blessings, "things that stand at the height of the world," for we have no stronger things than Torah and prayer, and what is the language of Chazal, Torah and prayer need strengthening? He should have said that a person needs strengthening, and not the Torah and prayer?!
To illustrate this, let us recount an incident that happened with the Rebbe of Klausenburg zt"l, when he once sat down to negotiate with a yeshiva student, and in the course of his remarks, the student said to him, "I promise that from today on I will do everything I can"... The Rebbe answered him and said, "Be careful with your language, you say that you will do everything you can, and do you know what you are capable of?! Do you even have any idea how great your powers are?!", and then he added: "I'll tell you,
In my youth, when I was the Av Beit Din of K.K. Klausenburg, I had a yeshiva there. When I gave a general shiur to all the yeshiva students, you needed about ten books for a shiur. In those days, the books were printed on very heavy paper, and they were also very large, so that each book weighed well. I realized that taking ten books with me from the bookcase to the stander did not have the strength. Therefore, before the shiur, I would give the list of books to the guy, and he would prepare them for me on the stand.
"Years later, during the war years, when I was in the concentration camps of the Germans, they would put stones and objects weighing thirty or forty kilograms on me, and I would climb with them to tall buildings, and so on for more than twelve hours a day, and then I discovered what enormous powers I had. Years earlier, I understood that I could not carry the Gemara and the Rashba, could I really not carry them?! Therefore, be careful when you say that you will do everything in your power. Because you have no idea what the limit of your ability is."
Therefore, what we have challenged in Chazal's explanation is that there are four things that need strengthening, and that a person is the one who needs strengthening, but this is not the case, a person does not need reinforcement, he is very strong and his ability is enormous, and the proof is that in the things he wishes to achieve, we see his reactions and abilities that have no limits, and why are these things not so for Torah and prayer? Chazal tell us that since these things need to be strengthened in a person, In other words, if a person knew how much power he holds in his hand through a moment of Torah study, how much influence he brings down to the world in every prayer he prays and connects to his Creator, how many worlds are built by his engagement with the mitzvot, how much reward and blessing he imparts to himself, his family, and the entire world, then it would not be difficult to get up to pray and connect to it properly.
