I Love Learning Talmud.
It makes you feel life.
Inside is Halacha / Jewish Law, Philosophy, and Aggada / Stories.
Yesterday I was reading a book called Tales of the Gemara : Shabbos. (A Great series of books for Jewish Children Bedtime Stories)
It told of five creatures that are afraid of creatures smaller than them.
the Lion, the Elephant, the scorpion, …
In tractate Berachot, it teaches us what we would learn from cats had the Torah – not been given.
In Tractate Baba Kama – daf 60a – it even gives two reasons why dogs laugh and one why they cry.