“The word mem stands for mayim, which means water.
Torah, the most vital element in our spiritual lives, is referred to as water, as it states: ‘…There is no water but Torah.’
Just as a fish cannot survive without water, a Jew cannot survive without Torah…
The moment we leave our culture, the moment we leave the water—our connection to G-d and Torah—we are spiritually dead.
Torah is also compared to water because water travels unaltered from the top of a mountain to its lower tiers and valleys. So did G-d bring down the same deep, intellectual Torah He had in heaven to the physical world.
The Zohar says that G-d looked into the Torah to create the world. The Torah serves as a blueprint for Creation. The wealth and strength of its water carves, and continues to carve out the foundation of the entire world.”