[Avodah] ENDING ON A GOOD NOTE

[Cantor Wolberg]

"lev he defines as a desire for emes, and bal as humility"

That's a beautiful vort, except for the fact that I think viewing "bal" as humility is reaching. 
Putting Lev and Bal together in my way of thinking would be a negative concept. I'd much prefer Lev Tov, as opposed to "heart trouble." 
Also, I see Lev as more a desire for compassion and it seems to me that an "anav" would be more a desire for emes.
Even the esrog which resembles the heart (lev) would symbolize humility, and that is not "bal" by any stretch of the imagination. 
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  Subject: Re: ENDING ON A GOOD NOTE 


    From: "Cantor Wolberg" cantorwolberg at cox.net

    >>The very last letter of the Torah is lamed and the very first letter is beis. 
    The two letters together form the word Lev, "heart."

    In order for the heart to be complete and whole, there is no break between the end of the Torah and the beginning.  Bereshis follows D'vorim with no interruption.
    If there were a break, it would break both the heart of the A-mighty, as well as the Jewish People.

    Now, in reverse, you would have "bal" (bet, lamed) meaning "don't" or "not". <<


  >>>>>
  In Eliyahu Kitov's Sefer Haparshios he says that the letters beis and lamed -- "bal" -- suggest that a person must be an anav in order to accept the Torah, self-negating.  You need both lev and bal -- lev he defines as a desire for emes, and bal as humility.


  --Toby Katz
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