Take Your Counsel From the Torah at Sinai Each Day

"In the third month, etc." (Exodus 19:1). This is what Scripture said: "Have I not written for you threefold things in counsels and knowledge, etc." (Proverbs 22:20). If you sought to take counsel, you should take it from the Torah. David said: When I wished to take counsel, I would take it from the Torah, as it is said: "In Your precepts I will meditate, etc." (Psalms 119:15). Ben Zoma says: What is written? "In the third month" — "on that day" is not written here, but rather "on this day" — as though on this very day they came to the wilderness of Sinai. Every day that you occupy yourself with the Torah, you should say: it is as though on this very day I received it from Sinai. And it says: "This day the LORD your God commands you to perform these statutes, etc." (Deuteronomy 26:16).