{"id":12918,"date":"2025-12-20T21:54:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12918"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:54:19","slug":"and-the-saboteur-was-sitting","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/and-the-saboteur-was-sitting\/","title":{"rendered":"104. And the Saboteur Was Sitting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard on the eve of Shabbat,&nbsp;<em>Beresheet<\/em>, October 1942<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<em>The Zohar<\/em>, Noah, \u201cThere was a flood, and the saboteur was sitting in the midst of it.\u201d He asked, \u201cA 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? 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