Aaq, chazal(medrash rabba, mishlei, perek 1) say that if someone comes to shomayim with only mikra, Hashem turns his face from him….and
ושרי גיהנם מתגברים בו כזאבי ערב, ונוטלין אותו ומשליכין אותו לתוכה.
Ministers of gehinnom attack him like wolves, take him, drag him into gehinnom.
If someone comes with 2 or 3 sidrei mishnah, Hashem says “my son” (notice how He does NOT say my son regarding mikra), why have you not learned all the halachos)(mishnah is called halachoa a lot), for such a person, sometimes Hashem will have mercy on him, and other times, they will drag him into gehinnom too.
If someone has mishnah, then Hashem says why you haven’t learned toras cohanim(sifra)
Someone who learned sifra, Hashem asks why have you not learned…
…chamisha chumshei torah!! The answer is that once you’ve learned all the mishnayos, chumash is not the same as when you’re just able to ratttle off pesukim.
Then it says if someone learned all of that, why has he not learned hagadah, then talmud, then eventually kabalah.
This, by the way, is brought lehalacha in the shulchan aruch harav.
But but but …why is gemara more important than mikra? Well, we see from here that it most definitely is. Not only that, but someone being proficient in mikra is not even called Hashem’s son; Hashem turns His face from him in disgust! Why? Because this is all you think my Torah ia? Just the pesukim?