Q:
Why is it that a person wasn’t created with two hearts?
A:
Why doesn’t Hashem give us two hearts?
And the answer is, we don’t need it. The one heart is such a perfect machine that it does the job. Rubber-dub, rubber-dub, day and night it goes on and on. Only Hashem says, “Look, don’t abuse it. Don’t abuse that machine. Don’t overeat. Don’t burn the candle at both ends. Live normally and you’ll be surprised what a wonderful job it does.”
Now when people live as Hashem intended, that one heart is such a perfect machine that it’s out of the question for two. If you had two hearts, it would create the biggest problem. Two hearts would be in competition with each other. The system is perfect only because it has only one pumping center.
And therefore, when Hakodosh Boruch Hu gave us this heart, it’s up to us to understand that one heart, that’s the happiness and that’s the wellbeing and that’s the success of our physical existence.
(December 1982)
