In addition to his sons Cain and Abel, Adam and Eve had a third son, Seth. One of Seth’s fifth-generation descendants was Enoch, who resisted the degeneration into which the rest of humanity was sinking, and lived a righteous life.
The Largeness of Small Things
וַיִּתְהַלֵּךְ חֲנוֹךְ אֶת הָאֱלֹקִים וגו': (בראשית ה:כב)
Enoch walked with G‑d. Genesis 5:22
Enoch was a shoemaker, yet, because of his holiness, his mundane occupation did not distract him from his service of G‑d. On the contrary, we are taught that with every stitch he brought about a further degree of harmony within the spiritual spheres.
We, too, on our own level, can follow in Enoch’s footsteps: We can so infuse our earthly activities with holy intentions that can positively influence the heavens.1
to stephanie Influencing the heavens is something we do all the time. It is called prayer. Most prayer is verbal, but perhaps people as holy as Enoch pray with their very actions as well.