How do Jews treat the Torah?

Answer 1

what i want to know how do jews treat it when its old

Answer 2

With respect

Answer 3

In two words? With respect. One of the minor Jewish traditions that amuses non Jews is that we kiss books. Specifically, before putting any book containing text from the Torah away after use, it is traditional to kiss it. This applies to printed copies of the Hebrew Bible, prayerbooks and commentaries on The Bible. There is also a blessing said before reading or studying the Torah, carelessly translated as "praise God for giving the Torah."

For a copy of the Torah in scroll form, handwritten on animal-skin parchment, physical gestures of respect get more complex. We keep it in an ornate box, an ark, with an eternal light burning in front of it. We dress it in a mantle that is typically elaborately embroidered. When the ark is open or when the Torah scroll is being carried, everyone present rises. When the scroll is unwrapped for reading, nobody touches the part of the parchment where the text is written. We use a pointer to keep our place in the text so our fingers don't touch it. And, to kiss the scroll, we kiss a corner of our prayer-shawl or kiss a prayerbook, then touch that to the text.

And then, there is the question of how we treat the content of the Torah. Jewish tradition holds that every word of the Torah is true and significant. When a commandment is repeated, the repetition must mean something new that could not be inferred from the original text. If something in the Torah cannot be literally true, there must be an allegorical or mystical sense in which it is true. We wrestle with the text trying to make sense of it.