Based on what we wrote in the previous post, we can answer a question that I saw. Here in Nitzavim the pasuk says כי קרוב אליך הדבר מאד בפיך ובלבבך לעשותו - The matter [i.e. Torah] is very close to you, in your mouth and heart to fulfill. This implies that it is EASY to acquire Torah. The gemara in Chagiga [15a] says that Torah is as easy to lose as glass easily breaks but is as hard to acquire as gold. This implies that Torah is hard to acquire. So which one is it? Hard - or easy?
The answer based on what we said is ... very hard. It requires so much commitment that one must be ready to do anything for it including go to the heavens and die. Only after this feeling and many expressions of commitment it becomes close to one and in his mouth and heart.
