Our Torah learning
In truth, when we learn Torah as well, the world around us continues to absorb the words of Torah. When a person learns Torah, not only does he absorb its words but the walls of his house learn as well.
This is so because that which is higher falls lower. See Sharei Orah, Yaviu Levush Malchus Ch. 12.
This concept is related to in a similar context in the Talmud:
Text 9
Perhaps a man will say, “Who is there to testify against me?” The very stones of his house and its beams testify against him, as it is written, ‘For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.’
Talmud, Taanis 11a
While the Talmud there is discussing that the walls of a person’s house will testify to his sins, it is understood all the more concerning the Torah that he learns, that his learning is absorbed in the walls. While at the present time what is absorbed into his wall is hidden, in the future it will be revealed and the “stone shall cry out of the wall.”
Though the full revelation of this will be in the messianic era, righteous individuals are able to appreciate the Torah that is absorbed in the world around them now as well. The Talmud recounts the story of a certain sage who learned Torah from an object that had belonged to a sage who had lived before him.
Text 10
He had the walking stick of R. Meir in his hand and it would teach him knowledge.
Jerusalem Talmud, Mo’ed Katan 3:5
This sage was able to tap into the Torah learning that was absorbed in R. Meir’s walking stick to the extent that he learned from it deep secrets of the Torah.
