Praying for understanding the Torah

The day that the Torah was given to Klal Yisrael, is the right time to pray to Hashem to give us the right frame of mind to understand His Torah, and the aura of it. The righteous Yidden have throughout the generations, spent hours on the Tefilah of Ahavas Oilam before Krias Shema. Our goal in this prayer is that Hashem should bring us closer to Him, which will come as a result of when we praise and thank Hashem. The first Rebbe of Belz, Rav Shalom, praised the Shacharis prayer of the Chasam Sofer on Shavuos. The Rebbe said: his prayer of Neila on Yom Kippur, could not come close to the elevation of Kedusha that the Chasam Sofer had. The Rebbe stated, that is one of the reasons that he is known as the heilige Chasam Sofer.