This day is the very end of all those most special days of the year which can give us long life (ז כ ר נוֵּ ל ח י יםֵ) and all kinds of goodness. א ח רוֹןֵא ח רוֹןֵח ב יב The last day is the most important. It bears the message of how a human being can be most successful. And that is by spending a life with a Simchas Torah mode.
Every time you make Birchos HaTorah, you say: ו ה ע ר בֵנ א "Make it sweet!". And if you don’t enjoy learning, then start saying ו ה ע ר בֵֵ Don’t be impressed and afraid of “giant” issues that appear “impossible”. To Hashem they are a zero and a joke.
נ א "Make it sweet!" with more Kavana. Dovid HaMelech learned Torah ½ the night, and the other ½ he sang. (Gemara). R' Zundel of Salant Zatzal explains that he sang in appreciation for the Torah that he had just learned.
The image of Simchas Torah should be circulating in your mind all year round. Just like going around the city of Yericho destroyed all the Reshaim, so does dancing in a circle on Simchas Torah destroy our wicked Yetzer Hara. The Rambam says that the real way to conquer the Yetzer Hara of Arayos is by learning Torah, and he brings the Passuk of: ב א ה ב ת הֵּת ש גֶׁהֵת מ ידֵֵמשליֵהֵיט Be intoxicated with your obsession for Torah, and constantly involved in the love of Torah (which in a practical sense means to “Ligg” (be absorbed) in learning and learn with Hasmada). Your love and constant enjoyment of Torah is the answer.
Nobody had love for Torah like the Chazon Ish Zatzal זי"ע) may his merit protect over us) and he was Zoche to tremendous toil in Torah to be able to learn. So keep davening for a Geshmak in Torah. The Chazon Ish put more toil in his Tefilos for Torah than his actual learning.
ב א ה ב ת הֵּת ש גֶׁהֵת מ ידֵֵמשליֵהֵֵיט means that you’re so in love with Torah that you’re becoming Meshuga (ת ש גֶׁה). When R' Ahron Kotler Zatzal was a Bachur in Slabodka, he used to talk in learning during the wee hours of the morning and forget what he was doing. They say he was: ש ֵיכוֹר drunk from Torah. I heard this from R’ Dvortz Zatzal, who learned in Slabodka at that time.
There is also a famous story with R' Shach Zatzal, who suddenly barged into a meeting of Gedolim to ask R' Chaim Ozer Zatzal a Kashya. The Stoliner Rebbe Zatzal was so impressed, that he decided to have R' Shach Zatzal as a Rosh Yeshiva in his Yeshiva in Luninetz. Tefila can do anything, so keep davening for greatness in Torah!
I know a Rosh Yeshiva who barely goes out to make money for his Yeshiva. He is a massive Masmid, and Mamash a Gadol B'Torah. He told me that his secret is that he constantly davens for a Geshmak in learning.
