אות - יז

He rebuked one person regarding the diligence of Torah study[34] and said to him: Why do you not study? What will you lose from it — will you not receive the World to Come through the Torah?! And needless to say, when the Torah shows love to someone, he no longer wants the World to Come at all — he only wants the Torah itself. And does not even Hashem Yisburach study, as is explained in the words of our Sages o.b.m. — the daily order of the Holy One Blessed He, Who spends three hours occupied with Torah etc. [Avodah Zarah 3b]! And in these generations, because of our many sins, Torah study has greatly fallen. And know that the great ones who were in the generations before us — that is, the great rabbis who were at that time — did not know any mystical intentions [kavanos] at all, and even so they were able to perform miracles solely through study of the holy Torah. Because through this, when they would say some word — it was fulfilled in that way.