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Inclination, good and evil

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 277 words | Copyright

Inclination, good and evil. Instincts for good and evil in human nature, made formal in Jewish anthropology. The rabbis taught that human beings were subject to two contradictory impulses, yez̳er ha-raʿ (evil inclination) and yez̳er ha-tov (good inclination).

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