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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>From:
"Cantor Wolberg" <A
href="mailto:cantorwolberg@cox.net">cantorwolberg@cox.net</A><BR><BR>>>The
very last letter of the Torah is lamed and the very first letter is beis.
<BR>The two letters together form the word Lev, "heart."<BR><BR>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.<BR>If there were a break, it would break both the heart of the
A-mighty, as well as the Jewish People.<BR><BR>Now, in reverse, you would have
"bal" (bet, lamed) meaning "don't" or "not".
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><B><BR></B><BR><B>--Toby
Katz<BR>=============</B></FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>