Torah as an organism

The Torah plays the same role for Judaism as Christ for Christianity. It is a subject for questioning and interpreting. Although the Torah is considered as an organism, it remains a 'quasi-personality'. It cannot have a biography or experience human suffering. This gives the Torah a 'multi-facedness', and a potential to reveal deontic force - two venues for the intuition of the reader to explore while reading this text. [Anyone] interpreting the Torah constantly experiences this alternative, and the whole history of its explication is structured by such elements; this is why a 'shadow' of this structure is always present in the history of people listening to interpretations of the Torah.(Zilberman, Analogy in Indian and Western Philosophical thought p. 200-201 "Writing and Tradition".)
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