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<DIV>"lev he defines as a desire for emes, and bal as humility"</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" size=4>That's a beautiful vort, except for
the fact that I think viewing "bal" as humility is reaching. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" size=4>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." </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" size=4>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" size=4>Even the
esrog which resembles the heart (lev) would symbolize humility,
and that is not "bal" by any stretch of the imagination. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" size=4>ri</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=T613K@aol.com href="mailto:T613K@aol.com">T613K@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=avodah@lists.aishdas.org
href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</A> ; <A
title=cantorwolberg@cox.net
href="mailto:cantorwolberg@cox.net">cantorwolberg@cox.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 09, 2006 4:35
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: ENDING ON A GOOD NOTE </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000>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 color=#0000ff PTSIZE="10"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><B><BR></B><BR><B>--Toby
Katz<BR>=============</B></FONT></DIV></FONT>
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