The Talmud in Tractate Eruvin asks a strange question: why is the Torah compared to a deer?
The answer: a deer's womb is narrow. Every time the deer mates, it is as cherished as the first time. Torah works the same way. No matter how many times you return to a passage, it feels fresh. The learning never gets stale.
But the rabbis were not done. They also compared Torah to a fig tree. Most fruit trees ripen all at once—you harvest and you are finished. A fig tree is different. Its figs ripen one at a time, over weeks. Whenever you reach for a new one, there it is. Torah is like that. No matter when you come to it, there is always something new waiting.
Then came the most intimate comparison. (Proverbs 5:19) compares wisdom to a breast: "Let her breasts satisfy you at all times." The rabbis explain: just as a nursing infant always finds milk, a student of Torah always finds new meaning. The Torah never runs dry.
The verse continues: "Be ravished always with her love." The Talmud says this means Torah should distract you from everything else. They told the story of Rabbi Elazar ben Pedat, who was so absorbed in study in the lower marketplace of Tzippori that he left his cloak in the upper marketplace. He simply forgot about it. When a thief came to steal it, he found a serpent coiled on top of it, guarding it.
The message from Tractate Eruvin is vivid: Torah is not a textbook you master and shelve. It is alive. It is a lover, a fig tree, a flowing breast. It gives and gives, and the more you return to it, the more it has to offer.