Q: Is there a correction for a person who has been a sinner all one’s life?
A: There cannot be a correction if there is no sin. Therefore, each must go through a spiritual phase of a sinner, an evil. Only after that comes the corrected spiritual phase of “righteousness.” I wish for you to first attain the phase of “complete evil” and then go through all the degrees of correction.
The progress and elevation to a higher essence is gradual and built through falling in each degree: first becoming “evil,” and then correcting your sin and becoming “righteous,” and so on. That means that it is impossible to advance without mistakes.
On the contrary, each progress incorporates within it a new sin, a new recognition of evil and its correction, and then again sin, recognition, and correction. There is no other way for us to learn, because man learns only through himself.
We must experience each mistake, be tormented by it and correct it by ourselves. From the moment we begin to study Kabbalah, we will have time to correct. We can do more in one lifetime of study than in hundreds of lifetimes if we do not study Kabbalah.