You can't save your soul by keeping the Torah. I have never taught otherwise. Sometimes I feel like I have to brand it on my forehead to keep reminding people that I already know this. No matter how many times I say or write it, people have a Pavlovian response to the words Torah and Law.
Teaching obedience, whether one teaches obedience to the instructions of Moses, Jesus, Paul, or God Himself, is not teaching salvation by works.
(I just happen to believe they all taught the same thing.)
If you're following the annual Torah readings, then you've been reading about the Tabernacle (aka Mishkan) for weeks. Here are some of my thoughts on the metaphorical meaning of some of the physical materials:
Gold = righteousness, purity, divinity
Silver = blood, atonement, redemption
Bronze = repentance, judgment
Wood = flesh, life, humanity
White linen = purity, simplicity
Blue = Heaven, God, divinity, the Kingdom of God
Scarlet = mankind, earth, blood
Purple = heaven+earth, God+man, Messiah Yeshua
And some of the numerical values:
2 - Division, separation, revelation of truth
4 pillars - Life, light, the entirety of anything, messiah.
5 pillars - God's actions to establish relationship with his people. Torah, divine grace.
7 branches on the Menorah = 7 spirits of God and the holiness inspired and aided by the anointing and indwelling of the Ruach haKodesh.
10 curtains = Orderly government. Covenant and creation.
11 curtains = Incomplete Israel. The 12 tribes with one missing, whether through betrayal (of the one missing, as in Judas, or the cause of one missing, as in Joseph), sin (e.g. Dan), or exile.
12 loaves for the Shewbread Table = 12 tribes of Israel, living in righteous submission.
50 loops and clasps = The critical number of righteous men and/or years to establish a sustainable community and/or restoration of righteousness in a city.
Consider also these sets of two:
Two Arks of the Covenant were originally made, one by Moses and one by Bezalel
Two sets of two tablets came down from Sinai and one set was placed in the Ark.
There might have been two jars of manna.
Two poles were set in each of several of the Mishkan furnishings
Two cherubim were set atop the Ark.
Two witnesses? Two media on which the Torah is written (stone and flesh)? Two choices (life vs death)? The first letter of the Torah (bet)?
Some numbers associated with the Temple:
Two sets of 200 bronze pomegranates = an appeal for mercy from God's judgment
Tripartite government is a consistent pattern in Torah.
Familial blessings are divided into priest, king, and land. Under normal circumstances, all 3 would be inherited by the firstborn son, but it wasn't unheard of to split them up. For example, Levi received the priestly blessing, Judah the kingly, and Joseph the double-portion.
Authority in the wilderness was divided between Moses, Aaron, and the Elders. The lines of responsibility were blurred since all 3 had both legislative and judicial powers, but the executive power was almost exclusively held by Moses.
In the construction of the Mishkan (tabernacle), responsibility was divided between the sons of Aaron (of Levi, the priest's tribe), Bezalel (of Judah, the king's tribe), and Oholiab (of Dan, whose name means "judge").
