The Kol Aryeh interprets the conversation between the min (apikarus) and Rava in Meseches Shabbos. Rava was so involved in his learning that he pressed his foot on his hand and blood was gushing out. The min commented that you are a hurried nation like your action by saying naaseh before nishma, how did you know you can keep the Torah before hearing it? So he explains that the min was questioning how Avraham Avinu waited to be commanded to do millah before doing it. If he felt that you are that allowed to wound yourself but I see from your actions that your view is that you can wound yourself, so it must be that is greater when commanded (metzuva veosah) but then why did the Jews say naaseh before nishma. Rava told him that we trust Hashem like a father who will not ask us to do something we cannot do.
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