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What is the meaning of "seventy faces to the Torah"?
Question
First of all, where is this written, and what does it mean? Does it mean that there are seventy ways to interpret or live according to the Torah? After all, there are many ways, and everyone is sure that his way is the right one (traditional, Hasidic, Haredi, etc.). Your answer will help me very much. Thank you very much
Answer
Hello and blessings
In Bamidbar Rabbah (Vilna edition), Parashat Naso, section 13, it says: Just as wine has seventy computations, so too the Torah has seventy faces. This is also found in the Zohar in several places.
The meaning is that the Torah can be interpreted in seventy interpretations, through remez, derash, and sod, and more. However, in the commandments of the Torah there are not seventy faces; there is only one aspect, and that is the observance of the halacha in its plain meaning, in all its details and precisions.
Success,
Benyamin Shmueli
