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Those are the general levels or scopes of the lessons provided to us in the Torah:

1. Derech Hashem - God’s purpose of the Creation and Divine intent for all the humans in general and for Israel in particular. This is the Ultimate scope and purpose for us to learn, to understand, to eventually reach the level of Divine experience - Ruach Hakodesh. To love Him means to know Him, to know Him means to understand His Torah.
2. Mitzvot - a Divine tool to help us to accomplish the goal listed above. Using the wording of Rambam (Moreh Nevuhim), this tool is in the form of - ” a concession to a human weakness”. Once we understand that a mitzva is a “doing” or “not doing” to develop a spiritually inclined mind (a mind where God-oriented thoughts dominate), only then we can know God’s purpose, Derech Hashem, in following them and understanding them.
3. Pathways of following the Mitzvot - may be temporal or eternal. For example the dictum to help the stranded donkey belonging to another Jew or, another example, a whole group of mishpatim how to deal with slaves or with captive women, - are nothing but pathways to accomplish a very specific goal - develop a respect for other people, their emotions or their possessions. These goals are eternal, the pathways are not. Sometimes modern life does not even offer conditions to apply or Jewish mind “outgrew” certain commandments making them irrelevant for today. Once we understand and can distinguish pathways from mitzvot, we become able to distinguish the eternal from the temporal or even obsolete.