Siman 573

(130.) Said the transcriber: I heard that at the hour when Rabbainu o.b.m. said the discourse "I greatly yearned to draw the world to action etc." — and he then greatly extolled engaging in Torah — as is explained in the conversations after the Legendary Tales, #19 — the Rabbi Rabbi Nussun o.b.m. asked him: "And what if one is truly a sinner, G-d save us?" Rabbainu o.b.m. replied: "Do you know the immensity of the level of holy Torah? Is not the engagement in Torah..."