November 15, 2018 · 00:03:53
Tehilim Perek 119: Letter AYIN Hello everybody, in today’s Nach Daily we’ll be discussing the letter AYIN. I’m Rabbi Shaya Sussman, covering the entire TANACH one perek at a time. Let’s jump rite in; The letter Ayin represents Amok depth, vision, sensing, and deeply thinking. The Ayin eye, encompasses both physically seeing something and spiritually seeing something in your mind’s eye. Its also the ability to think intuitively, more deeply and penetrating a subject matter. Like when a person like when a person learns gemarah in depth its called b’iyun from the world Ayin to look into something. After Adom and Chava sinned by eating from the Tree of Knowledge the passuk says “v’tipakachna Aney shneihem v’yado ki arumim hem – they opened up their eyes and saw they were naked.” Rashi explains Adom and Chava’s perspective had changed they were able to see things from a new angle. In English we have the same expression. When you understand something you say “I see.” Or if someone wants to know if your understanding something they will say “do you see what im talking about?” It obviously doesn’t mean physical seeing. It means seeing in your minds eye. This type of seeing is represented by the Ayin. A subtle but major point here is one’s eye is called Ayin. The organ is named after the letter not the other way around. The letters not named after the organ. This represents something more fundamental. If the world was created with only 21 letters and the Ayin was left out. No one woul