Merit of one's father's

זכות אבות ZICHUS UVOS - ANCESTRAL MERIT:

BOOK ONE:

1. Through immersing in a ritual bath, one's ancestral merit is remembered.

BOOK TWO:

1. Brilliant, ingenious people of the generation inspire awe; through that awe, ancestral merit sparkles, and through the sparkling of ancestral merit, repentance is aroused in the world.

2. At the entrance to a man's house it is discernible if his ancestral merit has finished, or if his ancestral merit is effective.

3. One who does acts of kindness does not need ancestral merit.