Similarly, Chazal (Bava Metzia 85a) state, שלה אכסניא על מחזרת תורה, "Torah returns to its lodging." The Gemara explains, "Whoever is a talmid chacham, and his son is a talmid chacham, and his grandson is a talmid chacham, the Torah will never cease from his children, forever."
So why didn't he see her tefillos? He understood that he didn't see her tefillos in heaven because they were already answered! Therefore, he told her that she need not worry, her tefillos were answered.
This is because there is nothing more potent than a tefillah said from the depths of the heart.
It states (Devarim 7:7) 'ה ַׁקחָש הָעַמ ִּים מ ִכָּל מֵר ֻבְּכֶם לֹא בָּכֶם , "Not because you are more numerous than all the peoples did Hashem desire you and choose you. הָעַמ ִּים מ ִכָּל הַמְעַט אתם כי, for you are the fewest of all the nations."
Rashi writes that הָעַמ ִּים מ ִכָּל הַמְעַט אתם כי, is the reason Hashem desires us. Rashi writes, "Since you don't make yourself proud when I give My kindness to you, this is the reason I love you. המעט אתם כי, you make yourself small. Like Avraham said (Bereishis 18:27) ואנכי ואפר עפר , 'I am but dust and ash.' And Moshe and Aharon said (Shemos 16:8) מה ונחנו, 'for what are we?'..."
A Jew is called a Yid. Rebbe Bunim of Pshischa zt'l taught that this is because a yid (yud) is the smallest letter. All letters can be lengthened, and they remain that letter. But a large yud becomes either a vav (if it is long in height) or a reish or dalet (if it is long in the width). A Yid, a Jewish person, is similar, because he considers himself small, המעט אתם כי. He considers himself a tiny dot. He feels that he didn't accomplish much.
If he is proud of himself and arrogant, he is keviyachol leaving his Yid. Similar to the letter Yud, which loses its name when it becomes larger than it should be.
Yiras Shamayim
There is another reason that the Jewish king should have his own sefer Torah from which he studies constantly. It is that he should have yiras Shamayim. We repeat the pesukim: (17:18-20) ...הַזֹּאת הַת ּוֹרָה מִשְׁנֵה אֶת לוֹ וְכָתַב א ֱלֹקָיו 'ה אֶת לְיִרְאָה יִלְמַד לְמַעַן חַיָּיו יְמֵי כָּל בוֹ וְקָרָא עִמּוֹ וְה ָיְתָה ...הַזֹּאת הַת ּוֹרָה דִּבְרֵי כָּל אֶת לִש ְׁמֹר , "He shall write for himself two copies of this Torah... it shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, so that he will learn to fear Hashem, his G-d, to observe all the words of this Torah and these decrees..."
Reb A. Y. Adler Shlita relates (באיאן ,כנפיך בצל) tells, "When I was young, my family and I were invited to attend the seder of Rebbe Mordechai Shlomo of Boyan zt'l. Because of my young age, it was my job to 'steal' the afikomen from the Rebbe. The truth is, that I was young and I didn't realize the significance of this moment. But the חכמת נשים , the wisdom of my mother, helped me. She called me over, and she asked me what I would ask the Rebbe when I return the afikomen. I didn't answer her because I didn't know yet what I wanted to ask. She said, 'Ask for yiras Shamayim.' When I returned the afikomen, the Rebbe asked me, 'What do you ask for?' and I answered, as my mother advised me, that I wanted yiras Shamayim. The Rebbe’s face changed, and he appeared to feel uncomfortable. He said, 'Why do you ask for yiras Shamayim? Why don't you ask for a bike...' But my mother motioned to me from a distance, 'Don't be mevater! Ask only for yiras Shamayim.' The rebbe asked, 'Maybe a set of Shas is a good present?' But I persisted with my request, 'I ask solely for yiras Shamayim!' The Rebbe held his head in his hands for a few moments, and then he said, 'I can't give you a brachah for yiras Shamayim, but I can bless you that if you want to acquire yiras Shamayim, you should be able to acquire it easily." (He wasn't able to give a gift of yiras Shamayim, because yiras Shamayim one has to toil on his own to attain. Only, one can request that it won't be too hard for him to attain it.)
