Why Food and Torah Are Blessed Differently
Food is sustenance owed by strict justice, while Torah is a gift of kindness, and the berachos reflect this.
Rav Heller notices that Birkas Hamazon's invitation, the zimun, calls on Elokeinu, the Name of strict justice, while the invitation to bless before the Torah says Barchu es Hashem, using the Name of mercy. He explains that Hashem is, in a sense, bound by justice to feed and sustain the creatures He made, so the zimun speaks of the Master and Lawgiver. Torah is different. It is a gift of loving-kindness, as the prophet Yeshayahu describes, and it cannot be a matter of strict right. If it were, the nations of the world, who are also His creatures, would have received it as well. The very Name we use in the berachah therefore teaches us how to see what we have been given. Our bread comes from Hashem's justice, and our Torah comes from His love.
Source: Tosafos Yom Tov on Mishnah Berachos 7:3
The next time you open a sefer or hear a dvar Torah, pause for a moment before you begin. Silently say thank you, not for something you earned, but for something Hashem gave you out of love. Then keep that feeling in mind when you eat: the same Giver feeds you each day. A short sentence of thanks at the start of your learning and again at your next meal is enough to change how both feel.