The difference between the written Torah and the oral tradition is: that the written Torah is mainly the words which is why even if an unlearned person who does not know what is being read also makes the blessings of the Torah when he is called up to the Torah. Whereas the oral tradition is mainly the understanding and the grasp, and the letters are not that important, and to the contrary the proof that someone really understands the oral tradition that he has learned properly is his ability to repeat back that what he has learned in his own words.
In other words, he also needs to safeguard the words of the oral tradition as the Talmud states: “one must say what he was taught in the precise language employed by his teacher” because in the precise language of his teacher there are several concepts which the student does not quite yet understand, and if he only understands it in his own style it will not include all the above mentioned concepts.
However, the sign that he at least understands a part of the subject matter is when he can explain it in his own words. According to all of the above, the lesson to be learned from the plural expression in ‘Torah Ohr’ of those who sit in tents and study in tents is: There are those who mistakenly think that in order to Daven at length one needs to study many Maamorim of Chassidus and understand them well through studying them in detail and since for whatever reason his study of Chassidus has only ever been by skimming through without ever fully understanding it deeply and never really studied much Chassidus – so then he is not capable of Davening.
The lesson for him is even someone who sits in the tent of Torah but only learns the written Torah which means in this context he only learns Chassidus by skimming through it to the extent that he is only saying the words even by him in simple terms so that there is no room for mistakes can also engage in the Avodah of prayer just as those whose Chassidus studying is in a style of the oral Torah where he delves deep into the Torah...
And also, someone who sits in the tent of the oral Torah that has a deep understanding in Torah needs the Avodah of prayer, as the maxim where our Sages of blessed memory criticise “Whoever says: “I only have Torah” because besides for Torah study one also needs extended prayer as well.
