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Yetzer Ra |
Yetzer Hara -
The evil inclination in man. In Jewish
tradition, and in the view of some rabbis, the Yetzer
Hara is the evil spirit itself, i.e., Satan. This is how Rabbi
Simeon ben Lakish,
3rd-century scholar, expressed it: "The Yetzer
Ra, Satan, and the angel of death are one and the same." [Rf.
Universal Jewish Encyclopedia I, 303.]
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