When Angels Come To Teach You Torah

Rabbi, I'm sorry to bother you, but I was studying Torah and all of a sudden there's a knock on the door and then this angel at my doorstep. He told me he was sent to teach me Torah. Can I learn with him? Let me give him his liturgy to him. The angel, he looked like this and this. Yes, yes, Rabbi, yes. And he had this ON HIS SHOULDER. YES, YES, YES. AND HE HAD THAT ON HIS CHEST. MAMASH, IDENTIFYING HIM PERFECTLY. YES, RABBI. You farsighted, you did good. YOU DID GOOD. BECAUSE THAT IS THE SATAN HIMSELF THAT WAS SENT TO destroy you by teaching you heresy, by teaching you things that would confuse you and turn you against Hashem. But because you took upon yourself to go ask THE RABBI BEFORE YOU DO EVERYTHING, before you do anything, that's what saved you. MEANING EVEN IF SOMEONE IS A GAON HAKADOSH, A GENIUS, HOLY PERSON THAT ANGELS FROM HEAVEN COME TO TEACH HIM, he has to ask permission. And that asking for permission is what saved him. If he asks for permission on something like that, needless to say, we have to, before we do anything and everything,