Why the Shabbat is commonly Called Exceptionally Righteous Person ? - The Trugman
Lamech gave birth to Parashat Noach and prophetically exclaimed: “This one will bring us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands, from the ground which God has cursed” (Genesis 5:29). The word “Noah” is related to the word “rest.” According to Rashi, man would now be able to more easily work the earth, which had been cursed since Adam ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. With Noah’s birth and Adam’s concurrent death, the curse that had been in effect during Adam’s lifetime, would be diminished, in effect, laid to rest. Furthermore, Noah reputedly invented the plow, making agriculture far easier. As a result of these two events, people had a sense of respite from their unproductive and backbreaking labor. Given the meaning of his name and the rest he brought mankind, it is no surprise that the Zohar links Noah to Shabbat, the day of rest ( Tikkunei Zohar 54a). In Kabbalah and Chassidut a tzaddik , an exceptionally righteous person, is...