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In my experience, you don't really need to know much elisp (if any) to be able to configure your editor unless you're building your own plugin. Once you have a specific problem, you just Google and use Emacs internal docs.
That said, elisp has an interesting trait: variables are dynamic by default. It's quite different from other languages so it may be amusing to learn more about (if you do find that interesting, check out PicoLisp)