Fighting your evil inclination

A person should constantly agitate his Good Inclination to fight against his Evil Inclination – Tremble (i.e. be agitated) and sin not. If he vanquishes it, fine. But if not, he should engage in Torah study, as it is state in that verse: reflect in your hearts. If he vanquishes it, fine. But if not, he should recite the Shema, as it is stated in the verse: on your beds. If he vanquishes it, fine. But if not, he should remind himself of the day of death – as it is stated at the end of the verse – and be utterly silent – selah.

What is the meaning of that which written [Exodus 24:12]: I shall give you the Tablets of stone, and the Torah, and the commandment which I have written, to teach them?

The verse is interpreted phrase by phrase: “Tablets” – these refer to the Ten Commandments; “Torah” – this refers to Scripture; “and the commandment”; – this refers to the Mishnah; – “which I have written” – these refer to the Prophets and Writings; “to teach them” – refers to the Gemara. [The verse] thus teaches that all of them were given to Moses at Sinai.

A classic text striving to understand and explain how all the Oral Torah, even the Gemara they are writing at that actual moment, was actually given to Moses at Sinai.