The evil we reveal inside us by virtue of studying Kabbalah helps us to build good above it. However, we do not plan on correcting the actual evil.

I reveal its highest peaks and lowest pits inside me, sometimes higher and sometimes lower. That is how I outline the boundaries of evil inside of me. So what should I now do with that evil?

I shouldn’t do anything to it! Just complement it with good along the same but opposite trajectory, as it is written, "Love will cover all sins"!

I do not cancel the evil because otherwise I will not have anything upon which to build good. Therefore, I do not erase the evil, but above it, I build good of the same exact form.

To do this I have to attain my evil in all its depth and manifestations. The Light that comes to me illuminates the deepest layers of egoism, showing me who I am and submerging me to the very bottom.

However, from the place where I find myself, I must always aspire to grow upwards—to be grateful for the revelation of evil inside me, and to use all of its forms to build good.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/2/11, “The Wisdom of Kabbalah and Philosophy”

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