Lekan adds up to 101, learning 101 is greater than 100. Ani Li also adds up to 101. A person must care for himself first and then for others as Hilel tells us. There is a vort of the Baal Shem Tov that even learning one letter requires us to respect the rebbi bringing a proof from Doag who thought David Hamelech only two things. He explains that one letter is para verava, multiplies knowledge but Doag taught him ‘only’ those two things nothing else. Therefore a person learning lishma gains ‘many’ benefits. I have an example how one letter creates new knowledge. Whoever adds to the mitzvos takes away because it says, amosayim vachetsi archa, so the GRA explains that the proof is not from amosayim because we would not know the measurements. The proof is from the ‘vov’ of vachetsi as without it we would read amosayim chatzi archa, two is half its length, so the length would be four but like this it is two and a half less than otherwise.
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