And even though they say that there are three rulers: the Mind, the Heart and the Liver. Nevertheless notwithstanding these three influencers the brain rules the heart. Because the head is located above and higher than the heart.
[For this reason, the beginning of the year is called Rosh Hashonoh which means the head of the year, because it is similar to the head of the body which is the source and the ruler over all the limbs]. And so too man’s intellect which is located in his head is ‘greater’ than his emotive attributes which are located in his heart and therefore his intellectual attributes rule his emotive attributes, and the expression and revelation of one’s Middohs are from his Mochin.
Clarification
However, this concept demands clarification. How is it possible that his Middohs shall be formed by his intellectual attributes? Mochin and Middohs are two opposites; Mochin is categorically calm, as the saying: “The old sage’s mind is sealed his intelligence is quiet”, whereas the Middohs are surging with passions and tumultuous [‘Humul Tumul’ in Yiddish]. Also, in the physical realm, the mind is cool and calculating, whereas the heart (where the Middohs reside) has a beating pulse, a heartbeat; this is because it is always rushing hither and thither. Whilst considering ‘Seichel’ to be a source for the ‘Middohs’ this can only occur in its [external] practical domain [referred to as] “Action of the mind” this being the subject, the summary and the conclusion of the intellectual concept. Therefore the ‘Middohs’ which come into formation due to the [contemplation of] ‘Seichel’ only occur after the mind becomes removed and dismisses all its extraneous cognitive thoughts and contemplation, and when there is left only the ‘Bechein’ - the implication, synopsis and the conclusion of that said contemplation.
