The Seventy Faces of Torah !!

[tel_aviv]

Shiv'im Panim laTorah: “The Torah has 70 faces.” This phrase is used to indicate different “levels” of interpretation for each pasuk (verse) of the Torah.
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, our holy books indicate that seventy 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.

[amo_l_oman]

Can you make an example to make clear what "level of interpretation " means ?

Thx.

[tel_aviv]

If you are Intrested :D! why don't you search for it your self ?

[amo_l_oman]

This is a discussion forum
You introduced a topic
I asked to tell more about it
If you can do then fine, if not i'll search

Look
is not mandatory to be polite in life but would be welcome

Salam alaikum

[tel_aviv]

Ok you wonder why i am doing this ? Because i know you are making fun of me and my Religion ? You are Muslim why do you want to know about Judaism ? You just want to start a useless endless argument - that's clear -but i wouldn't let you :)

[HITMAN]

tel_aviv, im interested to know about the promised messiah mentioned in the Torah

Does Jesus fit into those descriptions?

[amo_l_oman]

Ok you wonder why i am doing this ? Because i know you are making fun of me and my Religion ? You are Muslim why do you want to know about Judaism ? You just want to start a useless endless argument - that's clear -but i wouldn't let you :)

We Arabs have a say "not all fingers are alike"
so assuming you met Muslims who made fun of your religion, that doesn't mean it is the same with me
Then i should assume also that you joined Sabla to make fun of us but i won't
I always have a high hope in human being
Am not much into judaism so if you want to explain i'll be glad
We have also another member from Israel who comes every now and then to explain and is working fine

[Storm]

tel_aviv....

You open this thread for discussion...to let people know what you have in your religion and people to ask you and try to find things that they don't know.

This is what discussion forum is about and this is why everybody is here, o talk and discuss.

[IceTea]

Maybe he doesn't know what he is talking about, however you can prove me wrong.

[amo_l_oman]

He took from website
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Articles/Seventy_Faces/seventy_faces.html

[Storm]

Thanks Amo for the link :) ...

[BrAiKi]

the strory om arabic with the word eye, it means ayin and there's a letter 'ayin in arabic, but i dunno bout the 70 thingy tho

hehe tel_aviv I guess you better start answering these people's questions, or that will lead us to the own-based conclusions :)

so why don't u just do a favour for judaism and answer these people's questions!

[sheik-al-Tort]

I think what Tel Aviv is saying (and I'm sure he will get respect from mature muslims) is that the Torah can be understood at different levels and depending on the wisdom and spiritual development of the individual. This is also true of Christianity.

For non believers - an analogy might be Maslow's triangle.

[tel_aviv]

He took from website
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Articles/Seventy_Faces/seventy_faces.html
I am glad u searched :)

[monotheism]

Tel-Aviv, unfortunately, doesn't seem to know much about Judaism. And how absurd to quote from a Christian site to explain Judaism.

As for the quote itself, it's true that there are seventy "faces" i.e., interpretations (not by every Tom, Dick, and Harry, but by the holy Sages who taught and who explained the Talmud) to every verse in the Torah.

As for associating 70 with the word for eye and relating that to this saying, I've never seen that concept before, and the fact that it was seen on a Christian site certainly doesn't vouch for its accuracy. The author of that article ought to quote his sources, which he doesn't.