Commentary for Avodah Zarah 37:8
ואמר רבא בתחילה נקראת על שמו של הקב"ה ולבסוף נקראת על שמו שנאמר בתורת ה' חפצו ובתורתו יהגה יומם ולילה
Rava also said: At the beginning [of this verse] the Torah is called by the name of the Holy One, blessed be He, but at the end it is called by the name of he [who studies it], for it is said, “Whose desire is in the Torah of the Lord and in his [own] Torah he meditates day and night.”
Daf Shevui to Avodah Zarah
Rava reads the pronoun at the end of the verse as referring to the one who studies the Torah, not God (as it surely means according to its simple meaning). Thus, once one begins to study Torah intensely, it becomes his, and it is called by his name.
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