Is it a scroll for religions ? a scroll for prayers, a book of history, of geography, of poetry, of heroism, of human ferocity ? a book of human wisdom ? a book centered on the history of a specific group, the children of Israel ?
The Torah is all that and more .....
The Torah (BIBLE) is also something completely different.; the Torah is really, a " military battle plan", God is a warrior ( Adonii Ish milhama; Adonii Sebaot Shemo)
The torah is a " BLUE PRINT "of the struggle of God against the greatest monster [" yetser haraa (evil)] accidentally created on earth by Eve's new feeling called"CRAVING".
He (evil) will die on earth around the Hebrew year 6800 after creating the greatest havoc ever in this coming MILLENNIUM where the survivors will be the lucky ones;
The Torah is a complete battle plan until the complete destruction of evil; ( before the END OF THE COMING MILLENNIUM, around and before the year 3000 (of the common era).
Around that date will emerge a new era of universal PEACE "OLAM SHEKOULLO SHABBAT"(a world of complete rest from evil's misery and killing ) "THE HEBREW SEVEN'S MILLENNIUM " where the survivors will all be at peace whatever their beliefs .
Humanity will restart itself anew as true children of God, the way it should had been if it was not for EVE's CRAVING reaction .
The Torah is the fury of God; the Torah is His greatest struggle ever to liberate and free humanity from hatred (evil) and its components and bring humanity back to its purpose of creation, love and its components.
The Torah is the" BLUE PRINT" in which the children of Israel have been chosen by God HIMSELF as HIS high command officers (officers d'etat major) , in that struggle against evil; you will be to me "a kingdom of Priests and a Holy People" (the bible).
why did he choose them? He choose them only because they were the descendants of the patriarchs Abraham ,Isaac and Jacob and not for any special capability or personal differences or superiority than any other people in the world.
actually they were enslaved by the devilish oriented pharaoh.
The CHILDREN OF ISRAEL have been chosen to direct and to lead the fight in a Priestly Holy way, meaning by stonewalling Evil wherever they can and by enroling as many humans to goodness and decency under GOD's SIDE to make evil ineffective.
Eventually the children of Israel will get the wrath, the miseries, the hatred , the sufferings and the killings of furious evil but they would never give up their fight.
The Torah is a book where all humans without exception are either evil's officers and soldiers or God's officers and soldiers according to their behaviour and according to their actions. Their thermometer levels will turn positive (blue) if on God's side or (red) negative if on evil's side . (see the soul section) .
This is why yetser haraa (evil) who controls most of human behaviour and human minds is spreading and influencing relentlessly a specific hatred "anti Semitism" and "Jew hatred ", where individuals or groups of people HATE !!!! the Jews in general for no reason or for any invented faults reason but love and appreciate their personal Jewish friends and the Jews they are dealing with.
Evil since centuries has always targeted Israel and the Jewish people , specially in Europe and in Russia; he has tried often to wipe them out completely from earth.
[[(the last case of extermination was the Nazi German holocaust where he, barbarous evil ,was forcing with bayonets, thousands of small Jewish children in his cowardly and inhuman gas chambers of extermination !! )]; where was the mashiah during the german haulaucost where one third of the jewish people where savagely exterminated and many others emothionly hurt and disturbed ? where was he this ... ?
Evil knows that by succeeding in eliminating COMPLETELY the children of ISRAEL , ELHIM (God ) would loose the battle and he (EVIL) will become the only god sovereign on earth and eventually will assault God in heavens (Babel).
Certainly evil hopes will never succeed. Why? because God, had already planned his end and his destruction in the Torah , in the MISHKAN (THE TABERNACLE ) ;
This MISHKAN (TABERNACLE) was God's super energy instrument deciding the outcome of the struggle where love will wipe-out completely and irrevocably evil with his hatred and his killings .