Each morning, before opening the words of Torah, we recite a blessing.
A familiar prayer, repeated softly, almost instinctively, day after day.

And yet within it lies one of the deepest foundations of our relationship with HaShem:

“With an infinite love, You have loved us…”

On Shavuot, we remember the moment our people stood at the foot of Mount Sinai and received the Torah. But what made that moment possible was not only revelation. It was trust.

Our ancestors accepted the Torah before fully understanding it.
They said נעשה ונשמע — “We will do, and we will hear.”

First, we will step forward.
Then, we will understand.

There is something almost unimaginable in such a declaration. A people agreeing to bind themselves to a covenant before hearing its entirety. Accepting before analyzing. Trusting before grasping.

And yet, this is precisely what distinguished Israel from the nations of the world.

The Gemara teaches that HaShem approached other nations as well. Esav, the children of Amon, Ishmael. But they questioned first. They needed to know. They weighed, measured, evaluated.

Their questions were not evil. They were human.

But those very questions revealed a condition:
we will accept if we agree.

Our ancestors responded differently.Not because they understood more, but because they trusted more.

They were animated by an unshakable bitachon, a deep certainty that the One giving them the Torah loved them infinitely. That HaShem, like a loving Father, would never lead them toward a path they could not endure, carry, or ultimately transform into life itself.

Perhaps this is why Torah begins not with comprehension, but with relationship.

Love creates trust.
Trust allows acceptance.
And acceptance opens the door to Torah.

These three pillars are inseparable:

The love HaShem has for His people.
The trust we place in Him.
And the gift of Torah itself.

The Vilna Gaon teaches that bitachon is the very culmination of Torah.

Not knowledge alone.
Not scholarship alone.
But arriving, through Torah, at a profound and peaceful trust in HaShem.

A child does not walk because he understands the road ahead.
He walks because he trusts the hand holding his.

Perhaps this is what our people understood at Sinai.

And perhaps this is still the whisper carried within our prayers every morning:

Abba, You love me.

And because You love me
I am not afraid to follow You.

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