And Enoch Walked with God

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388) “While the king was at his table, my perfume gave forth its fragrance.” So are the ways of the Creator. When a person clings to Him and He instills His Shechina in him, and He knows that he will later sin, He moves ahead and takes his fragrance from him, taking him from the world.

389) “While the king” is the Creator. “At his table” is that person who has clung to Him and follows His ways. “My perfume gave forth its fragrance” are the good deeds in him, for which he passes away from the world prematurely, so as to not spoil them.

390) King Solomon said about that, “There is Hevel [mouth fume/folly] that is done on the earth, for there are righteous to whom comes as it comes for the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked to whom comes as it comes for the deeds of the righteous.

There are righteous to whom comes as it comes for the deeds of the wicked. This is for the good deeds that they did. The Creator takes them from the world and executes Dinim on them—although it is not yet their time—so they would not corrupt their deeds. And there are wicked to whom comes as it comes for the deeds of the righteous, meaning that the Creator is patient and prolongs their time.

These are so they would not sin and corrupt their good deeds, hence Dinim come to them as with the deeds of the wicked, and those are in order for them to return to Him in repentance, or because good sons should emerge from them. For this reason, He waits for them and is patient, and they receive as though for the work of the righteous.

391) Enoch was righteous. The Creator saw him, that he would sin later, and took him before he sinned, as it is written, “And to gather lilies.” Because they emit fragrance, the Creator takes them before they sin, as it is written, “And Enoch walked with God, and he was gone,” since God took him. “Gone” means that he was not to have a long life, like his contemporaries, who lived long lives, since the Creator took him before his time.

392) The Creator took Enoch from the earth, raised him to the high heaven, and placed in his hand all the high treasures and 45 keys of the secrets of engravings that the high angels were using; they were all given to him.

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