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Shamati (I Heard)
104. And the Saboteur Was Sitting
I heard on the eve of Shabbat, Beresheet, October 1942
In The Zohar, Noah, “There was a flood, and the saboteur was sitting in the midst of it.” He asked, “A flood means a flood of water. This, in itself, is deadly and a saboteur. So what does it mean that the saboteur was sitting in the midst of it, in the midst of the flood? Also, what is the difference between the flood and the saboteur?”
He replied that the flood is corporeal torments, meaning torments of the body. Within it, meaning within the torments of the body, there is yet another saboteur, who sabotages spirituality. This means that the afflictions of the body bring him foreign thoughts, until these foreign thoughts sabotage and kill his spirituality.
