“Ayin” עין means Eye. We bear witness to your pain, we validate your experience. This is the beginning of healing. This is Hashem’s will, that justice be served, and it begins with seeing/acknowledgement.
“Ayin” עין: King David write in Tehillim 17:8 “Guard me like the pupil of the eye, shelter me in the shadow of your wings.” In healing from Trauma, in the moments of feeling vulnerable, weak, overwhelmed, pained, we can turn to Hashem for salvation.
King David writes in Tehillim (120:1): “A Song to the Ascents, I raise my eyes upon the mountains, “M’Ayin אין” from whence will come my help?” Verse 2 reads, “My help is from Hashem, Maker of Heaven and Earth.” We work from the knowledge that our help/healing comes from HASHEM.
Yeshuat Hashem K’Heref Ayin (עין) (Pesikta Zutreta): Salvation from Hashem comes in the blink of an “eye.” In surviving and healing from trauma, the work can feel long, too much and like healing may never come. We maintain and trust Hashem can remove the pain at any time and trust He will.
“Ayin” אין can mean “nothingness”- There are times on the healing journey that we feel empty, no salvation in sight, and all appears meaningless. This same word stands for “Ain Od Milvado” = it’s in that space that we can surrender and find Hashem.
“Ayin”: אין The zero point, the point of hishtavus, equanimity, and imperturbability. These are points we can access on the Healing journey.
It is also the state of consciousness that transcends time and space and physical limitations when any and all healing can happen.
“Ayin” אין is associated with the term Ein Sof (Hebrew: אין סוף, lit. 'without end'), which is understood as Hashem prior to His self-manifestation in the creation of the spiritual and physical realms, an Infinite unity beyond any description or limitation. This term provides hope and testament to the multitude of healing modalities available to us, and yet to become known to us, to support the Healing journey. Pain is constriction, a small piece of life, while healing is vast and infinite.
The Bilvavi teaches that “Ayin” is the name of a power of the soul. It is from the depth of our Soul power that we find the strength and
fuel to Heal.
Behind The Name: Why "Ayin?"
The word “Ayin” can either be spelled with the Hebrew letters א ין or as עין. These 2 versions of the word “ayin” form the backbone of our mission at Ayin Healing Retreat.