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p. 303 Transforming bitterness into sweetness and darkness into light is reserved for tzaddikim (righteous ones) and those at the highest spiritual levels. How are we expected to take all our desires and physicality and transform them into good? On erev Shabbos, if there is shalom bayis in the house, even the evil malach (angel) must bless the home and the family. When we are able, in a particular matter, to use the kochos (powers) of rah (bad) for holy and good things, we are able to experience a little bit of what the tzaddik can do, and also help ourselves stay away from committing a sin. Bringing - as an intermediate step - my negative energy into positive activity to distract the yetzer harah (evil inclination) does not defeat the yetzer, but keeps it too busy, for now, to bother me. Enlisting criminals to fight the enemy - The Dirty Dozen. And what will happen when the negative energies are no longer occupied and distracted by positive and good projects?
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