RE: [Be'er Mayim Chaim] Keser Shem Tov

i think the idea behind the posuk 'and  Noach found favour in G-d's Eyes' alludes to the fact that all sparks come from 'G-d's Eyes' [as in 'the breaking of the vessels'], thus the verse shows us, as you said, that the favour found is due to those sparks [from G-d's Eyes] having a connection with that person's soul.
It may also allude to the fact that Noach was a dwelling place for G-d: hence he found favour etc

 You are a part of Go-d, part of His Essence. Just as His Essence is infinite, so too is the 'part'. You are beyond limit, estimation or assessment. 

"Man's steps are established by G-d," means that you are here to purify or improve something specific in a particular place. For centuries, even since the world's creation, that which needs correction has been waiting for you. Your soul too has been waiting, ever since it came into being, for its time to descend and perform the tasks of improvement assigned to it. 

> From: tal.zwecker@gmail.com
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> Subject: [Be'er Mayim Chaim] Keser Shem Tov
> Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 22:34:55 +0300
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> B"H
> Please spread the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov v'nishmas my parents,
> Yoel Ben Avrohom and Malka ben Avrohom. May their Neshamas have an Aliyah
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> Kesser Shem Tov Hashalem Perek 15
>
> "There are three types of favors: The favor of a dwelling place in the eyes
> of those who dwell there; the favor of a woman in her husband's eyes, and
> the favor of merchandise in the eyes of the purchaser."1
>
> The Baal Shem Tov taught: When G.d told Jacob, "I will give to you -- the
> Land upon which you are lying," 2 He had folded the entire Land of Israel
> underneath him.3 This alludes that he would not have to travel from one
> place to another in order to find his sparks, but would be able to find them
> wherever he would be.4 Hence, "Noah found favor in G.d's eyes." 5
>
> 1Tractate Sotah 47a.
> 2 Genesis 28:13.
> 3 Tractate Chulin 91b.
> 4 This alludes to the teaching that everything we come in contact with,
> everything that belongs to us, even everything we eat, are all part of our
> own souls. These parts have been separated from us and we must reunite and
> elevate them within ourselves. But how do we know what things are really
> part of us? The answer is, to those things to which we are attracted are
> really part of us. These include, things we are attracted to eat, the items
> we are attracted to purchase, and the person we are attracted to marry. The
> attraction is G.d's way of telling us, Look here, these are the parts that
> are really apart of you! This is why the sages said in the opening teaching
> that there are three types of favor - the favor is our attraction to those
> things, which includes our attraction to live where we do, because that is
> where most of those things are to be found. Some people, though, travel
> around a lot, whether for their livelihood or for other reasons. This is
> because their sparks are scattered around in those places. But G.d's
> blessing to Jacob was that He would bring those scattered sparks to him.
> 5Genesis 6:8.
> The connection of this verse here is not clear. Perhaps the allusion is that
> Noah also merited that his sparks come to him, as indeed happened when the
> designated survivors of all life on earth came to him to enter the Ark.
> Furthermore, it may also allude that Noah found favor in G.d, just as the
> three things find favor in the eyes of their beholder. That is, Noah
> represents the righteous person, the tzaddik, who reunites his soul with
> G.d, and is thus with G.d wherever he is, which is another way of
> representing G.d folding the Land of Israel under Jacob.
>
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