What does it mean by "an eye for an eye"?

Lately, our lives have been more complex than ever, with wars, hatred, and mutual mud-slinging, and this leads me to think of the biblical commandment of “an eye for an eye.”

According to the laws of Hammurabi, “an eye for an eye” says:

If I gouged out your eye in a fight, my punishment will be to have my own eye gouged out.

The full expression is as following: “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” i.e., tit for tat.

Kabbalah interprets “an eye for an eye” differently:

If I’ve hurt you in any way now, then at some point in the future, either in this incarnation or in another (and it’ll most likely be in another), I’ll be hurt just like I hurt you. In Sanskrit, this is called karma, and we view it as cause and effect.

But what if it’s not quite like that?

What if it really is an eye for an eye?

Not as pay back for what I did, but thanks to the fact that I was hurt in this incarnation, I basically learn firsthand from what I did to someone else in a different time.

By writing “I learn” I don’t mean me-Yael, but rather my soul.

What if my soul chose to come here with whoever will become the person who hurts me, so that I can understand the depth of the damage that the soul brought about the last time?

We can look at it as a kind of karmic balance. I see in it the wealth of the soul’s learning process.

They say that every coin has two sides, but in my view, it’s more like a Rubik’s cube: You can experience things from many angles and aspects, and the soul will learn something new every time.

I experience “an eye for an eye” as an expression of old energy that looked at everything in terms of give and take, punishments, damage and repair, and didn’t see the richness and depths that our soul can reach.