Over the generations, Torah study has become a supreme value in itself in our nation. This is the secret to the emotional and intellectual connection with the book and with the tremendous spiritual treasures.
The Quran calls us "the People of the Book" (Ahl al-Kitab), but I used to tell Italians that we are "the people of the Books" In our thousands of years we have built a tremendous textual and intellectual skyscraper that no nation in history has ever given its descendants the like.