Comment: As a rule, a person associates himself with good people and not with murderers, perverts, or maniacs. Why do those kind of people even exist?

My Response: Each of us has negative qualities, and that is why they exist in the world. Any pathological manifestation of anything appears in some individual because he is a collection of all our negative qualities.

There is a rapist living in me, in you, and in millions of other people, but we restrain ourselves. The desire for violence gathers into one big force, is invested in one person, and he performs this function. If we did not have this in each of us, there would not be a rapist. And so it is in everything else. This is how we complement each other. But there are people in whom it manifests itself in a special way in full force.

Question: What is their role anyway? Let’s say wolves eat animals, but they eat sick animals. And what role do those killers play?

Answer: Any negative property must manifest itself in our world and only then be corrected.

It cannot manifest itself in you and in me, because we suppress such drives in ourselves. But in every person there is absolutely everything: murderers, rapists, thieves, deceivers—only in different proportions, in different percentages, in different interrelations. An ordinary person holds himself back with fear and all sorts of forces.

And there are some people who cannot restrain themselves, and they allow these properties to be realized. They are the bearers of our negative qualities, and they realize them for us. For us!

Imagine that an organ in the body is damaged because all other organs could not keep it in a state of proper functioning, and it became ill. It turns out that it is not the only one to blame. Or vice versa, this organ got sick, and it helps everyone else.

The heart itself does not hurt. There are huge disruptions to the functioning of the entire body, or to the nervous system—maybe blood pressure, and so on—and therefore this pump refuses to work. Something happens in the brain due to pressure fluctuations or due to some kind of stress. That is, there is not a single organ that would cease to function on its own; everything is interconnected.

Based on this, you need to understand that if there are any problems in the world, it is only because of me. This is what it says at the end of the “Foreword of The Book of Zohar” by Baal HaSulam. Therefore everyone should say that there is a part of him in it, and not even just a part. He must feel that with this part he has added the last percentage to 100%, and therefore a murderer has spoken from within another person, and something bad has happened.

Question: Then what is the point of punishing these people?

Answer: You are approaching a very good topic! I was waiting for this, although at first I did not want to touch it.

Now you can open the Talmud and study spiritual laws. They are prescribed based on the fact that we are all in the same system, we define each other, we depend on each other, and we are responsible for each other. Now you understand what surety (Arvut) means: mutual responsibility.

And now, based on this, we are building a new society and the laws that should be in it. It is a completely different system, a completely different philosophy.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Negative Properties” 6/14/10

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