So Much Depth

 In today's world of Madison Avenue everything has to be a quick sound bite, a catchy motto, a glossy picture and that is it. People aren't interested in more. When I was in yeshiva, sometimes a boy would ask me a question that required a lengthy in depth response, but when I started I would sometimes notice the boy's eye's glazing over as if to say - "short, sweet and to the point, please".

Well, life is deep and Torah is the blueprint for life so Torah is deep. Not everthing can be explained in one sentence.

I am presently involved in researching the nature of the forbidden labor of הוצאה on Shabbos. Straightforward. Don't carry an object from the private domain to the public or vice versa.

Yet.

Yet, one can write a thousand books on this issue and not be finished.

The rishonim describe it as a "melacha grua" an inferior melacha. I can easily [with Hashem's help and a computer] write a full length book just to explore the definition of the term "melacha grua".

I say "WOW". So profound. Two words that don't even appear in the gemara and yet so much has been written about them.

It gives one such an appreciation for Torah. It is critical that when learning one doesn't seek the easiest and most superficial ways of understanding and instead tries with however much time he has, to plumb the depths of any given topic and then move on to the next.