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The heart means our desires. Everything we experience in our desires is considered that which passes through our heart, or in other words, that which is written on the heart. For us to write on our heart by ourselves, we already need to work with our desires. How do we work with our desires? It is with the intention to bestow above the desire, which we call a “screen.”
If all of our desires are to receive, and they are stimulated by what they feel instinctively, then this is how they feel, and it is what passes through them. But what does it mean that we “write”? It is that we manage our desires, that we decide how we want them to function in relation to what we feel. Therefore, we understand that if we simply flow through life, impressed by what we feel, then we do not participate in that writing. The letters and the words that are written on our heart are not ours. Instead, they are merely the impression of our desire to receive, which we were created with. They are not our impressions, and the events we pass through are not ours, they do not belong to us. It is simply some kind of creature that feels the events it is going through.
However, writing on the heart, in the desires, means that we can enter into our desires. We cannot change the desires themselves nor what excites and stimulates them. What we can change is the intention upon the desires, i.e., how we use them. This is the sole “place” where we can intervene. Through the change of the intention upon the desires, we completely change the writing. Everything depends on us.
In spirituality, the light, desire, and vessels come from above, and only the screens, i.e., the intentions, are where we can add from ourselves alone. What are the intentions? They are why we receive, for whose sake, from whom, and to whom do we want to bestow through our reception.
Discovering this inner place is our free choice. Adding intention upon our desires is the sole free action that we have.
Rosh Hashanah (the New Year), where the word “Shanah” [year] connects to the same root as the word for change, “Shinui” [change]), symbolizes our ability to make this change of intention, i.e., to do this writing on our heart. It is a new beginning where we becomes a human being in the fullest sense of the terms, and not simply a creature that feels life passing over itself.
Therefore, “good writing and signing” (Ketivah ve Chatimah Tovah) are the actions that we intend to perform throughout the whole year. We now stand at the beginning of this process, and we “sign” that from now on we will deal only with the correction of our desires, i.e., applying the intention to bestow so that our desires will all be with that intention. With this, we begin a new year. This certainly does not relate to our calendar year or our holidays. Rather, on any day when this ability, this desire, and understanding comes to us, that is called “the beginning of a new year” (“Rosh Hashanah“).
Based on the Daily Kabbalah Lesson with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on August 31, 2007. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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