I heard [this lesson] in his name, which he told over in the name of another tzaddik who had lectured in a synagogue about why passersby tell the harvesters: “God will help!”
There are wicked people who are reincarnated in grasses that grow on roof tops. They have no spiritual elevation, because these grasses are not harvested. This is the aspect of “They will be like the grasses of the roofs… which do not fill the palms of the harvesters… and the passersby do not say, ‘God’s blessing <be upon you>’…” (Psalms 129:6-8). For they are not harvested, and no one says about them ‘God’s blessing’ when he passes by. They therefore have no spiritual elevation.
שָׁמַעְתִּי בִּשְׁמוֹ, שֶׁסִּפֵּר בְּשֵׁם צַדִּיק אֶחָד, שֶׁדָּרַשׁ בְּבֵית־הַכְּנֶסֶת, שֶׁמַּה שֶּׁאוֹמְרִים כְּשֶׁעוֹבְרִין עַל הַקּוֹצְרִים: ה' יַעְזֹר (ב"פ) –
I heard [this lesson] in his name, which he told over in the name of another tzaddik who had lectured in a synagogue about why passersby tell the harvesters: “God will help!”
כִּי יֵשׁ רְשָׁעִים שֶׁהֵם מְגֻלְגָּלִים בָּעֲשָׂבִים הַגְּדֵלִים עַל הַגַּגּוֹת, וְאֵין לָהֶם עֲלִיָּה, כִּי אֵין קוֹצְרִין אוֹתָן הָעֲשָׂבִים, וְזֶה בְּחִינַת (תהילים קכ״ט:ו׳): יִהְיוּ כְּחָצִיר גַּגּוֹת וְכוּ', שֶׁלֹּא מִלֵּא כַפּוֹ קוֹצֵר וְכוּ', וְלֹא אָמְרוּ הָעוֹבְרִים בִּרְכַּת ה' וְכוּ'. כִּי אֵין קוֹצְרִין אוֹתָן וְאֵין אוֹמְרִים עֲלֵיהֶם בִּרְכַּת ה' בְּשָׁעָה שֶׁעוֹבְרִין עֲלֵיהֶם, וְעַל כֵּן אֵין לָהֶם עֲלִיָּה,
There are wicked people who are reincarnated in grasses that grow on roof tops. They have no spiritual elevation, because these grasses are not harvested. This is the aspect of “They will be like the grasses of the roofs… which do not fill the palms of the harvesters… and the passersby do not say, ‘God’s blessing <be upon you>’…” (Psalms 129:6-8). For they are not harvested, and no one says about them ‘God’s blessing’ when he passes by. They therefore have no spiritual elevation.
אֲבָל אוֹתָהּ הַתְּבוּאָה שֶׁקּוֹצְרִין, אוֹמְרִים הָעוֹבְרִים בִּרְכַּת ה' כַּנַּ"ל, וְעַל יְדֵי זֶה יֵשׁ לָהּ עֲלִיָּה:
However, <about that> grain which they do harvest, <it is right to say,> “God’s blessing.” Through this it has spiritual elevation.