Ayn Mayim by Blue Fringe

This is from the album 70 faces.

Did you know -
Shiv'im Panim laTorah: "The Torah has 70 faces." This phrase is sometimes used to indicate different "levels" of interpretation of the Torah. "There are seventy faces to the Torah: Turn it around and around, for everything is in it" (Bamidbar Rabba 13:15). The Torah is a work of literary art, written by the LORD Himself, and therefore shares characteristics with all other works of art.

Why 70 faces to the Torah?
As the face, so the eye... There are seventy ways of "looking" at the Torah. The Hebrew word for "eye" is 'Ayin. Ayin is one of the letters of the Aleph-Bet and has the numerical value of seventy. Also, the Tanakh indicates that 70 has a sacred significance:
• 70 Jewish souls that descended to Egypt
• 70 elders were chosen by Moses
• 70 sages of the Sanhedrin
• 70 years of King David
• 70 years of the Babylonian exile
• 70 Nations of the World
• 70 words of Kiddush
Each generation of the study of Torah adds to the ongoing life of the Torah as it is lived in our people.

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