בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה׳ אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶך הָעוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּנוּ לַעֲסוֹק בְּדִבְרֵי תוֹרָה
בְּרוּךֶ אַתֶה חֲוָיָה שְׁכִינּוּ רוּחַ הָעוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר קִדַשְׁתַנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתֶיהֶ וְצִוְתָנוּ לַעֲסוֹק בְּדִבְרֵי תוֹרָה
בְּרוּכָה אַתְּ יָהּ אֱלֹהָתֵינוּ רוּחַ הָעוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר קֵרְבָתְנוּ לַעֲבוֹדָתָהּ וְצִוְתָנוּ לַעֲסוֹק בְּדִבְרֵי תוֹרָה
Blessings for learning and studying Torah
Berakhot 11b:
Barukh atah Adonai Eloheinu melekh ha’olam asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu la’asok b’divrei Torah
Nonbinary Hebrew Project:
B’rucheh ateh Khavayah Shekhinu ruach ha’olam asher kidash’tanu b’mitzvotei’he v’tziv’tanu la’asok b’divrei Torah
Feminine God Language:
Brukhah at Ya Elohateinu ruach ha’olam asher keir’vat’nu la’avodatah v’tziv’tavnu la’asok b’divrei Torah
Rabbi Rachel Barenblat, "Integration," https://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2008/10/this-weeks-portion-integration.html
When the floodgates open
build a boat
with many compartments
here in these cubbyholes
stash your secret fur
your scales, your feathers
put your red in the bow
your yellow in the stern
and your blues at the bottom of the hold
pack a crate of empty journals
pack provisions for the forty days
required for transformation
and set sail
not knowing where on earth
the current will carry you
don't be surprised if you wobble
when you take your first steps
back across the gangplank
when you raise the partitions
every color you'd sequestered
will run together like water
offer all of yourself
on your altar of stone
beneath the varicolored sky
צהר A LIGHT — Some say this was a window; others say that it was a precious stone that gave light to them (Genesis Rabbah 31:11).
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, "The Light in the Ark,"
https://www.rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation/noach/the-light-in-the-ark/
Recall that Chizkuni said that Noah had a precious stone for the dark days and a window for when the sun shone again. Something like that happened when it came to Torah also. During the dark days of persecution, Jewish mysticism flourished, and Torah was illuminated from within. During the benign days when the world was more open to Jews, they had a window to the outside, and so emerged figures like Maimonides in the Middle Ages, and Samson Raphael Hirsch in the 19th century.
I believe that the challenge for our time is to open a series of windows so that the world can illuminate our understanding of Torah, and so that the Torah may guide us as we seek to make our way through the world.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, "Praying a Few Words at a Time," https://www.hadar.org/torah-tefillah/resources/praying-few-words-time
The Ba’al Shem Tov, as reported by his grandson, R. Moshe Hayyim Ephraim (Degel Mahanei Ephraim), points us in a new direction. The tzohar is no longer limited to Noah’s construction of the ark; it is guidance for all of us struggling with speech. The phrase now means: “make the word shine with light.” The Besht teaches: words that come out of our mouth, especially words of prayer, should have light. Words are significant, and they carry meaning and spirit; they can’t be empty or dark.