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In Judaism, yetzer hara (Hebrew: יֵצֶר הַרַע , romanized: yēṣer haraʿ ) is a term for humankind's congenital inclination to do evil.The term is drawn from the phrase "the inclination of the heart of man is evil" (Biblical Hebrew: יֵצֶר לֵב הָאָדָם רַע, romanized: yetzer lev-ha-adam ra), which occurs twice at the beginning of the Torah (Genesis 6:5 and ...
The term evil inclination may refer to: Concupiscence, in Christian thought; Yetser hara, in Jewish thought. This page was last edited on 18 ...
Many sources speak of both a yetzer hatov ("good inclination") and a yetzer hara ("evil inclination") in the human soul. [16] The yetzer hatov is conceptualized in different sources as a tendency towards goodness, productivity, or concern for others, while the yetzer hara is conceptualized as a tendency towards evil, selfishness, or base or ...
In Judaism, yetzer hara is the congenital inclination to do evil, by violating the will of God. The term is drawn from the phrase "the imagination of the heart of man [is] evil" ( יֵצֶר לֵב הָאָדָם רַע , yetzer lev-ha-adam ra ), which occurs twice at the beginning of the Torah.
A more internal dimension of Yetzirah—based on the awareness that the true battleground between good and evil is within us—is the emotional imperative to pit the good inclination against the evil inclination.
In kabbalah, the animal soul (נפש הבהמית ; nefesh habehamit) is one of the two souls of a Jew. It is the soul that gives life to the physical body, as stated in Tanya, and is the source of animalistic desires as well as innate Jewish characteristics such as kindness and compassion.
Evil, by one definition, is being bad and acting out morally incorrect behavior; or it is the condition of causing unnecessary pain and suffering, thus containing a net negative on the world. [1] Evil is commonly seen as the opposite, or sometimes absence, of good.
An evil eye (grudging), evil inclination (passion), and hatred of mankind, he says, remove people from the world. In the same spirit he answers the question put by Yohanan ben Zakkai to his pupils as to the best standard of conduct. He declares that one should seek association with a good companion and avoid a bad one. [49]