Helping the good to triumph over evil

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readOct 3, 2024

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An article in The Jerusalem Post:

My comment:

Balancing “good vs evil” and choosing between “life and death” are at the center of our teachings, especially when we look at all our sources from the unique viewpoint of the Wisdom of Kabbalah.

As our Kabbalistic sages also explain, the right choice, the fragile balance, always depends on choosing mutual connection, unity, and “love of others” between us instead of allowing the instinctive “unfounded hatred” coming from our inherent nature to separate us.

This requires constant awareness and hard and collective efforts, so in any condition, we can rise above and act against our inherent egos that reject us from one another.

Even in nature’s fully integrated and interdependent system, life equals mutual connection and selfless and unconditional, mutually complementing cooperation.

This is exactly what the unique “mutual guarantee” our forefathers at Sinai pledged to mean: a totally selfless and unconditional unity and service of each other, where each Jew consciously and willingly becomes totally responsible for each and every other Jew.

Only through this uniquely Jewish mutual guarantee can we triumph over the evil that comes from the inherently egotistic, selfish, hateful, and exploitative human nature.

Moreover, we are obliged to publicize and show everyone else how each and every human being can overcome the evil we are all born with!

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.