Is there no value in interpreting a verse if you don’t learn something from it?

It’s interesting because these are the words of the living God, although “interesting” is obviously very subjective, so I can understand if it doesn’t interest you. I don’t think this has any practical significance for everyday life.

In my opinion it has no value at all. It’s hard for me to claim that this doesn’t count as Torah study in some formal sense. Great and worthy people did and do this. But on the substantive level it is plainly a waste of time. You won’t learn anything from it, not just for life. In no context whatsoever. You won’t even know the meaning of the verse from this, because there are many possibilities and, in my view, it’s impossible to decide between them. So maybe you’ll get reward as one who reads Torah. Good for you.

If there were a way to arrive at the correct interpretation of the verse, would you think that had some benefit? Or would it still be a waste, because it has no practical significance for life?
And what do you think about “like a hammer that shatters rock” and “the Torah has seventy faces”? Maybe there isn’t one single correct interpretation. Maybe one can even say that there is a subjective experience for someone reading the Torah.
And precisely regarding the specific question I asked, about the revelation at Mount Sinai, I think there are approaches that say that when one reads the Torah, there should be an experience like that of Mount Sinai, and if so, it is important to try to understand what they experienced there.

I said what I think. If you find an interpretation of the verse, then apparently it has some value of some kind (which I don’t understand). But practically speaking, you probably won’t even get that.
Hammers and rocks—that’s really in the Council of Torah Sages. And seriously, you can explain it to mean that many people have many opinions. But if one person comes away with several interpretations, he hasn’t learned anything. There is a situation where several interpretations come up and all of them seem correct to me, and then it is learning (and even then, only if something was genuinely new to me, and not that I just loaded my own insights onto a verse). But just tossing out a few possibilities, each of which may or may not be correct, has no value in my eyes.

I can’t resist bringing up here a joke from one of the senior lecturers at Hebron Yeshiva. He asked: why do they pierce the ear of the slave? After all, they saw the sounds with their eyes!
And he said about this, humorously, that clearly they did indeed see the sounds—but they saw them through their ears.

Come on, this is an ignorant question. The quote is: “And all the people saw the sounds, and the torches, and the mountain smoking.” They saw the torches, not the sounds. It’s a verse that pulls the expression “sounds” along with the visual images. There are a million such cases in the Hebrew Bible. Like “And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses.” And as for the curiosity itself, many mystics brought this verse as proof of a blending of visual images in the form of sounds and vice versa, something common in drug hallucinations such as LSD.