Achas Sha’alti: Praying and Persevering for Torah

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This Torah class is brought to you by TorahAnytime.com. Rabosai, you need to daven, and Hashem should give you Torah. A person needs Hashem's help. When it's difficult to learn, achas sha'alti, I have to daven, ... la'adam daas u'melamed l'enosh bina, hashiveinu Avinu l'sorasecha. I have to ask Hashem. Achas, one thing I ask. Now, if you notice, sometimes you ask for a million things, and this is on the bottom of the list, right? Imagine you ask your parent for thirty things, right? Get me this and get me that and get me this and get me that. What are the chances that you'll get it? Nothing. Why? Because it's such a big list. But if there's one thing that you ask for, the chances are—listen, you ask for one thing, one thing. Achas, I ask for one thing. A ben Torah has to ask for one thing. What does he ask? Shivti b'veis Hashem, to learn. But not only do I ask and I daven to Hashem, it has to be oisah avakesh. I search till I get it. Not easy. You need to work hard. You need to really, really, really want Torah. It has to be that I know in my heart it's getting hard, and I still gonna push, and I'm still gonna try. So you hear the pshat in the pasuk? Let's learn, rabosai, together the pasuk. David HaMelech is teaching us how one should want to be a ben Torah, how one should want Torah. And the answer is, achas. What does achas mean? One. I ask for one thing only. Ask for many things means I don't care that much. I ask for one thing. Sha'alti, I ask You, Hashem, but it's not only if You don't give it to me, I'll stop. Oisah avakesh. If I don't get it, I'll still push ahead, and I'll still put all my efforts to get it. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by TorahAnytime.com.