All Men are Created Equal? Creating Chiddushim and Learning Kabbalah

The importance of learning lots of Torah data in one’s childhood, before binah develops.  Caveats on the imperative to plumb the depths of mitzvos to understand their intent.  Danger of learning kabbalah when not properly prepared to do so. The strategy of the yetzer hara to seek out situations which have a spectrum of both good and bad potential, and to co-opt them for evil.  The case of the seudas mitzvah.

Citations:  This shiur cites the Biur HaGra on Mishlei.