The Torah

Many people pass through their lives without ever reading the Torah. Some have their own misconceptions about what the Torah actually is, and through these misconceptions, they assign a certain limited value to the Torah. They view it as an "old book", outdated, replaced by something else, and if they ever go to actually read the Torah, they end up reading it in a way that it is not what Torah actually is. It's like they wear a faulty lens through which they view the world of Torah in a distorted way, and they're pretty convinced that's the "right" way because that's what they have heard from other people, that's what they read in their familiar environment, though they never sat to actually explore the value of Torah from a perspective without biases, and so they just miss the point that the Torah is priceless. It's like the story with the blind men and the elephant, each arguing with each other about what they think the elephant is, when really none of them is able to tell.

There is so much wisdom one can learn from the Torah. There are also those who appreciate and love the Torah for being the Torah, and they spend their lives learning it.

"Delve and delve into it, for all is in it; see with it; grow old and worn in it; do not budge from it, for there is nothing better." (Pirkei Avot 5:21)

The principles of the Torah haven't changed and they cannot change. This is actually not something so hard to comprehend. Take for example a tree. There are different species of trees, and many members of the tree species, but throughout time, the tree is still a tree. Regardless of where the tree is located, in which time period, which people pass and look at the tree, the tree is still a tree. We have a certain definition that we attribute to the tree in order to identify it, and if the parameters of that definition would somehow change, that's human intervention.

"It [the Torah] is a Tree of Life to those who cleave to it" (Proverbs 3:18)