Indeed, while mankind will be a major factor in the undoing of wrong and injustice, we simply couldn’t do that on our own. All the pieces of the great and intricate clock we’d cited before – all the key and low-key phenomena that go into life as we know it (and life as we don’t) – will play a part as well.

In fact, all of that is now honing and readying the world for the undoing of wrong. Left to its own devices, wrong would flourish only too well, to be sure; but all is getting set for its undoing.

And so it’s clear why mankind has to have a yetzer harah with all the wrongful, self-centered drives that it feeds into – so we could learn to restrain and rise above all that. Know, however, while that element of our being – our ingrown imperfection, and all our smallness and malevolence – will be with us for the meanwhile, it will all prove to have helped advance us in the end.

Thus, all the factors that go into the eventual undoing of the world’s wrong and malevolence will also contribute to the undoing of our own wrongdoings.