443. The Writing Is in the Labor

“What is your work? … I am even afraid that a fly might come and sit on the coronet of a Dalet, erasing it, and turning it into a Reish” (Iruvin 13).

A “fly” means foreign thoughts. As for the Dalet (see the beginning of the “Introduction of The Book of Zohar”), the Dalet is in Kedusha [holiness] and Reish is in the Sitra Achra [other side]. He wrote that it could erase, meaning the faith. Kankantom [black ink] means Ken [Kof-Nun, 150 in Gematria] reasons, which is knowing. “Writer” means “Write them on the tablet of your heart.” “Lacking and surplus” are the lack of the right [side] or the lack of the left.

Kankantom means two times Ken—a pure Ken and an impure Ken. When they are equal, he has room for faith.

“Into the ink,” meaning blackness, which is work, for the writing is mainly in the labor. When he writes, he already has two discernments, called Kan-Kan-Tom [Tom (Hebrew: end)], for precisely then he has room to recognize it, and with this he writes.