Torah 

תורה

The Torah encompasses everything, and a person can always find in the Torah what he is seeking. 

Ben Bag Bag says: Delve into it, delve into it,<footnote data-num="226"/> for everything is in it; and in it you will see and understand. Grow old and worn with it.<footnote data-num="227"/> Do not budge from it, as there is nothing better than it.

Rabbi Hiyya bar Abba said that Rabbi Yohanan said: What is the meaning of what is written: “The guardian of a fig tree will eat its fruit” (Proverbs 27:18)? Why are matters of Torah likened to a fig tree? Just as with regard to a fig tree, whenever a person searches it, he finds figs in it that he did not find previously,<footnote data-num="228"/> so too, with matters of Torah: Whenever a person contemplates them, he finds in them meaning that he did not find previously.

Why is the Torah likened to a fig tree? Because in all the other fruits there is waste: In dates there are pits, in grapes there are pits, and in pomegranates there are rinds; but the fig is entirely edible. Likewise, in matters of Torah there is no waste, as it is stated: “For it is not an empty thing for you” (Deuteronomy 32:47). 

“And may they proliferate like fish in the midst of the earth” (Genesis 48:16).<footnote data-num="229"/> Just as fish grow in water, and yet when a single drop falls on them from above, they receive it thirstily as one who never tasted water in his life, the same is true of Israel: They grow in the water of Torah, and yet when they hear a new matter from the Torah, they receive it thirstily as though they have never heard a matter of Torah in their lives. <source>(Mishna Avot 5:22; Eiruvin 44a–b; Yalkut Shimoni 2:2; Bereshit Rabba 97) </source>