אות - קד

"If this scoundrel assaults you, drag him into the house of study" (Kiddushin 30b). For sometimes he [the Evil Inclination] prays from within the person, and then the person is like a synagogue and someone is praying within it. And similarly in study — sometimes the person is like a house of study and someone is studying within it. But even so, such study is better than such prayer — as is known. And this is the meaning of: "drag him into the house of study" — for the Evil Inclination that is mixed into prayer is not so easily removed through prayer, but through study it is easier to remove it, for study brings more clarity.