ALEFBET - Hebrew letters made by Gabriele Levy
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AYIN silver engagement ring - ALEFBET - THE HEBREW LETTERS ART GALLERY
Gabriele LEVY

AYIN silver engagement ring

Prezzo di listino €160,00 €0,00 Prezzo unitario per
Imposte incluse.

Made in sterling silver mechanically polished to reveal classic beauty and slight texture. 

The ring is a precise miniature of the big home decor wall letters, made by the same sculptor Levy.

Available in various sizes. In order to know your size, please refer to the International Standard for ring sizes.

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Ayn is the sixteenth letter of the hebrew alphabet.
Pronunciation: GR, guttural
Example: etz, tree
In gematria, ayn represents the number 70
The letter ayn represents vision and perception


The letter name is derived from proto-semitic ayn, "eye", and the phoenician letter had an eye-shape, ultimately derived from the IR hyerogliph.

To this day, ayn in hebrew, arabic, and amharic means "eye" and "spring" (ayno in neo-aramaic).

Because the sound is difficult for most non-arabs to pronounce, it is often used as a shibboleth by arabic speakers;

The word ayn, eye, ensures that this letter means perception and vision. Among all the organs, it is the eye that reveals most to men. And the wise say: "eino dome shmiya lereiya", "the sense of hearing is not comparable to the sense of seeing". (source: Mechilta, Exodus 19:9)

The word ayn related to maayan, fountain, means also spring of water. (Genesis 16:7). Like a spring brings water from the depth of the earth to sunlight, so the eye brings perception of the world to the mind of men. (source: rav Hirsh, Genesis 3:5)

Ayn implores us to open our eyes, to see beyond the physical. The ayn is meant to take us from dark to light.