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  2. Evil inclination - Wikipedia

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    The term evil inclination may refer to: Concupiscence, in Christian thought; Yetser hara, in Jewish thought. This page was last edited on 18 ...

  3. Yetzer hara - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Jewish views on sin - Wikipedia

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    People have the ability to master their evil inclination (Genesis 4:7) and choose good over evil (Psalm 37:27). [ 18 ] Being a psychological inclination, the rabbis saw positive aspects even in the yetzer hara : without it, humans would not be motivated to marry, bear children, or conduct business (as these activities are often motivated by ...

  5. Yetzirah - Wikipedia

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    The external state of consciousness in the World of Formation is called ״half good and half evil.״ The "half evil" refers to the self-consciousness of the beings of this world. The "half good" refers to the emotional sensitivity of one to the other as expressed in the genuine desire to make the other happy.

  6. Vietnamese Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnamese Wikipedia (Vietnamese: Wikipedia tiếng Việt) is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Like the rest of Wikipedia, its content is created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.

  7. Animal soul - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam (lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [1] The encyclopedia was republished in 2011.

  9. Vietnamese philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Most research on Vietnamese philosophy is conducted by modern Vietnamese scholars. [6] The traditional Vietnamese philosophy has been described by one biographer of Ho Chi Minh (Brocheux, 2007) as a "perennial Sino-Vietnamese philosophy" blending different strands of Confucianism with Buddhism and Taoism. [7]