The Olelos Ephraim explains, do we look at the hatzalah, salvation of the Jews the elevation of the spirituality or the mapalah of the goyim, the destruction of our enemies, the diminishment of gashmiyos, of material things. The Beis Hilel’s view is that we increase in kedusha as the elevation of ruchniyus automatically destroys the gashmiyus. The sur mera, turn away from bad emanates from the asei tov, from doing good. We say Arur Haman and Baruch Mordechai. They both have the same gematria. Arur has a bigger gematria than Haman decreasing in material things, whereas Mordechai has the bigger gematria than Baruch increasing in kedusha,
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