You must find (or create) a place within you that is burning to understand what the text is teaching because you understand that your “life” depends upon it, that it holds a key to your quality of life. The measure of your drive-to-know will be the measure of your willingness to work, for our sages teach, ‘the reward (i.e. benefit of a spiritual practice) is only proportionate to the labor.’ — Sarah Yehudit Schneider, Texual Study as Meditation