Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch once said: the Torah wants to circle the bimah, and since it cannot do this, a Jew becomes its “feet,” transporting the Torah around the reading table, just as feet transport the head.
The explanation of a Jew being the “feet” of a Torah scroll is as follows: the foot is utterly nullified to the will of the brain, as we can see from the fact that a person’s thought-impulse to move his foot is instantly obeyed. A foot that does not heed the command of the brain is not healthy. Similarly the dancing of Simchat Torah expresses complete acceptance of the Heavenly yoke and submission to the Supernal Will, so that the Torah’s commands are fulfilled without hesitation or deliberation.
(Likkutei Sichot, vol. 4, p. 1169)
The feet of the Torah. Nice explanation about Torah wanting to dance around the bimah! Also, if we did not accept the yoke of Torah and subordination to the Divine Will w/out deliberation or hesitation, the commands would not be applied, as we would be too busy deliberating and nothing WOULD get done.
I understand it thus. Naaseh venishmah.
"We will do and we will hear" (after the fact, the result of IT). And yet, yeshivot
deliberate and debate every word of the
Talmud, which in itself is a mitzvah.