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Fulfilling mitzvos, emuna and Torah are essential in Avodas Hashem.[1] We see those who perform mitzvos and learn Torah. However, if they do not have proper emuna, they are still lacking a rudimentary element. Likewise, one can have emuna but may not be learning Torah[2] or performing mitzvos. A person requires all three. These three are alluded to in[3] חותמו של הק”בה אמת, the signet of Hashem is אמת, as אמת serves as an acronym for אמונה, מצות, תורה.
As we mentioned having just two of these three is not sufficient. This is how we can explain אם בחקתי תלכו ואת מצותי תשמרו ועשיתם אתם.[4] אם stands for אמונה, מצות. However, that is insufficient, as one also must have בחקתי תלכו, which Rashi says refers to toiling in Torah. The next word is ואת which translates as: and if he has just אמונה and תורה (the first letters of את), that is not enough since he also needs מצותי תשמרו, mitzva observance. מצות and תורה surely are not enough as is hinted to in its initials which spell מת.
How should we conduct ourselves? With all three, as the Pasuk continues ועשיתם אתם as אתם forms an acronym for אמונה, מצות, תורה!
[1] In the eulogy of R’ Yeshaya Cheshin (1867-1955), the following was said in the name of the Gra (printed in Divrei Yeshayahu, volume 3, p. 24). It says כי עזה כמות אהבה קשה כשאול קנאה, that love is strong as death, jealousy is as hard as the grave (Shir Hashirim 8:6). When a dead person is being taken to his grave and he sees the living engaged in Torah and mitzvos he has immense pain and great jealousy since he doesn’t have the ability to engage in Torah and mitzvos. If a living person would have this pain that the dead person has, he would perish immediately as his soul would fly out of him because he wouldn’t be able to tolerate such pain.
[2] When we need to stop learning, do we get upset or are we happy to do what needs to be done if it is the will of Hashem. in this way we can explain semeichim b’tzaisam v’sasim b’voam osim b’eimah retzon konam (Shacharis on Shabbos Keil Adon): if we are happy when we have to stop just as we are when we begin, then we know we are doing it b’eimah, and it is retzon konam, the will of Hashem. Tangentially, the Gemara says ashrei mi she’gadeil ba’torah va’amalo ba’torah v’oseh nachas ruach l’yotzro, fortunate is the one who grew and whose toil is in the Torah and who gives pleasure to the Creator (Brachos 17a). Another explanation given is that fortunate is the one who grows and toils in Torah in a way that it gives pleasure to Hashem meaning that he learns at the right times and not when he should really be doing a Chessed and the like.
[3] Shabbos 55a.
[4] Vayikra 26:3.
