Ancestral Merits, the Ancestral Merits Stood For Him

The merit of the righteousness of a person's ancestors. The reward or good that comes to a person by virtue of the good deeds of his ancestors.

("And every Torah that is not accompanied by labor is ultimately useless and brings sin. And all who labor with the crowd will be laborers with them for the name of heaven, whose righteousness of their fathers helps them and whose righteousness endures forever" - Avot 2:2, and so: "Wisdom is good that has the righteousness of the fathers with it" - Ecclesiastes 6:1, and so: "There is none like this, for if tears of my eyes, which I have poured out in secret, and also the righteousness of the fathers in a short time, behold, they stood up for me to revive me" - Shalom Aleichem / Hakedera, Kacha, and so on: "In a short time, the righteousness of the fathers stood up for me and I am one of the disciples of Rabbi Meir" - Bialik / Safih, 7, r, and so on: "And I struck him on the side of his path and they trampled him and he passed by, and without the righteousness of the fathers that stood up for him there was no "He will depart from there in peace" - H. Hazaz/ The Great Watcher, 221)

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