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Evil is the implicit flip-side, or converse, of good. Evil is anti-polar to good.<\/strong>340<\/sup><\/p>\n

All evils are negations.
\n-Maimonides341<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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340 <\/sup>See Berg, Kabbalah for the Layman, p. 85.
\nCf. Bokser, Abraham Isaac Kook<\/em>, p. 267. “there is a conception [in the Kabbalah] of a negative counterforce paralleling institutional religion, the ideal essence of religion.”
\nCf. Zohar Parshat Tmmah 129b. “. . . the glory of the Holy One, blessed be He, is more greatly exalted [by the Kaddish] than through any other prayer, because it causes the ‘other side’ to wane and its empire to decline.” As cited in Luban, “The Kaddish,” p. 2 10. Cf. Zohar<\/em> 1:4a. We are here “to turn darkness into light.”
\nCf. Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism,<\/em> p. 263. “Throughout this process the two tendencies of perpetual ebb and flow-the Kabbalists speak of hithpashtuth,<\/em> egression, and histalkuth, <\/em>regression\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcontinue to act and react upon each other. Just as the human organism exists through the double process of inhaling and exhaling and the one cannot be conceived without the other, so also the whole of Creation constitutes a gigantic process of divine inhalation and exhalation. In the final resort, therefore, the root of all evil is already latent in the act of Tsimtsum.<\/em>”
\nCf. Scholem, Origins of the Kabbalah,<\/em> p. 293.
\nThere is a theme in kabbalistic literature that when the Ten Sefirot<\/em> (of holiness) were created, alongside them came into existence Ten Sefirot <\/em>of impurity (de-mis’avusa).<\/em><\/p>\n

341 <\/sup>Maimonides cites and approves this general proposition in Guide<\/em> 3: 10 (Dover ed., p. 266).<\/p>\n

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Evil is the base of the good.
\n-Baal Shem Tov342<\/sup><\/p>\n

Good is set against evil, and life against death: so is the sinner against the godly. So look upon all the works of the Most High, and these are two and two. one against another.
\n-Ecclesiastes 33:15<\/p>\n

Light is steadily pitted against the dark, and light will increasingly overcome the dark.
\n-Kook343<\/sup><\/p>\n

Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably. . . . It was out of the rinde of one apple tasted that the knowledge of good and evil as two twins cleaving together leapt forever into the world.
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342 <\/sup>Baal Shem Tov, Kesser Shem Tov, cited by Agus, “The Meaning of Prayer,” in Millgram, Great Jewish Ideas, p. 221.<\/p>\n

343 <\/sup>Bokser, Abraham Isaac Kook<\/em>, p. 21.<\/p>\n

344 <\/sup>John Milton, Areofiagilica,<\/em> p. Ill, as quoted in Commentary, January 1985, p. 46.<\/p>\n

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