Torah as the life-force sustaining creation
Torah · creation · Ten Utterances · Ten Commandments · Shavuos
התורה היא חיות וקיום מעשה בראשית.
The Torah is the life-force (chiyus) and the sustaining of the act of creation (maaseh bereishis).
The Sefas Emes states the core idea: the Torah is not separate from the world but is its very vitality and the force that keeps creation in existence.
ברוך אומר ועושה הוא על מעשה בראשית שנבראו בעשרה מאמרות.
"Baruch omer v'oseh" ("Blessed is He who speaks and does") refers to the act of creation, which was created through the Ten Utterances (asarah maamaros).
He reads the morning bracha's phrase "who speaks and does" as referring to the original creation, brought into being through the ten Divine maamaros of Bereishis.
וגוזר ומקיים הוא על הדברות שמקיימים העולם:
"Gozer u'mekayem" ("who decrees and fulfills") refers to the Ten Commandments (dibros), which sustain the world.
The next phrase, "who decrees and fulfills," points to the Aseres HaDibros — for it is the Torah given at Sinai that upholds and maintains the world's continued existence.
Summary: The Torah is the inner life-force that sustains creation. The bracha's two phrases correspond to two "tens": "who speaks and does" to the Ten Utterances by which the world was first created, and "who decrees and fulfills" to the Ten Commandments, the Torah that keeps the world in being.