Hakadosh Baruch Hu (G-d) helps by granting immense powers to each Jewish man, woman, and child, giving each of us the necessary ability to keep up with the cycle and study Rambam every day, to fully comprehend the material using our chochmah (wisdom), binah (understanding), and da’as (knowledge), and to experience such success in study that we wholly surpass our own expectations.
G-d further assists by granting peace of mind and fitness and harmony of body and spirit. Seeing that we have merited heavenly success from this study, we must then invest even greater effort into studying on an even more advanced level.
Utilizing Heaven’s Assistance. This idea is similar to the famous story of the Tzemach Tzedek (see below): When the Tzemach Tzedek was still young, his grandfather the Alter Rebbe once summoned him into his office; there he explained that he desired to gift him with greatly advanced Torah perception. The Tzemach Tzedek declined his grandfather’s offer, explaining that he wished to acquire Torah knowledge through his own hard effort and not receive them freely, unearned. Many years later, though, when his already extreme wisdom had infinitely expanded, the Tzemach Tzedek declared that he is bothered that he turned down the offer of the Alter Rebbe. For however great the Torah concepts received gratuitously from the Alter Rebbe may have been, they would have still left room for completely occupying himself in personal toil in Torah study, acquiring on his own even deeper and greater concepts—Torah, after all, is infinite.
