The last letter of the Torah is the letter lamed, or L (the last letter of the Torah’s final word, Yisrael). The first letter of the Torah is beit, or B (the first letter in the word Bereshit, “In the beginning”). Together, these two letters are themselves a word, the word lev, the Hebrew word for heart. If the sacred calendar traces the path of the soul, then the Torah is the path of the heart. It is, in fact, the heart that keeps the sacred calendar going, that joins its end to its beginning.
