that there are seven names by which the evil inclination is called, and Hakodosh Boruch Hu calls the Yetzer Hora-‘Rah’ - evil, and this is the inference of the Possuk “you shall abolish evil from within you”.
As a result of [this Avodah whereby] he “drives out evil from within” it effectuates the Possuk “abolish evil from Yisroel”, that he [in the process] drives out the evil from the general populace of Yisroel and [further] from the entire world. [This is akin to what the Rambam writes: That a person has to visualise himself and also the entire world in perfect balance [so] that everyone is exactly [one] half meritorious and [one] half culpable. This means that by performing one solitary Mitzvah, a person tips the scales for himself and the entire world to a majority of good deeds].
For, since the world was created for Yisroel, as our sages have expounded on the Possuk in Bereishis, “For cause of its destruction; but if he perform one duty, behold, he will overbalance himself and the whole world to the side of virtue, and bring about his own and their salvation and escape, even as it is said: "But the righteous is an everlasting foundation" (Prov. 10. 25), it is he, by whose righteousness he over- balanced the whole world to virtue and saved it.”
Good deeds: This is how we are able to understand how a single person’s solitary act can affect the entire world. Similarly, as a result of a single person doing a solitary act of self-nullification nullifying and eradicating his own evil inclination he can affect an eradication and nullification of evil in general throughout the entire world.
For since: The reason why this is possible that because someone eradicated his own evil and then eradicate all of the B’nei Yisroel’s evil he can then eradicate evil from the entire world is because...
Possuk says Bereishis: The word ‘Bereishis’ is really two words: ‘Beis Reishis’ two things called Reishis (Beginning). As Rashi writes on the very first Possuk in Chumash: “As our Rabbis stated (Letters of R. Akiva , letter “Beis”; Bereishis Rabbah 1:6; Vayikra Rabbah 36:4): HaShem created the world for the sake of the Torah, which is called (Mishlei 8:22): “The beginning of His way,” and for the sake of Yisroel, who are called (Yirmiyohu 2:3) “The first of His grain.”
