Our sages tell us that there are שבעים פנים לתורה (Bamidbar Rabbah). Does this mean that every word, or verse, or some unit, has 70 interpretations, and there are theoretically billions of combinations of explanations of the Torah, or are there 70 approaches to learning the Torah, and each one would yield a single approach to the entire Torah?
Even if one were to take this number to represent it being many, and not an actual number, the question remains: Are the many different approaches to Torah specific to each idea, or are they different approaches of how to view the entire Torah, with one consistent theme or attitude?
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