The Yetzer haTov and Yetzer haRa [Good and Evil Natures]; Bechirah Chofshit [Free Will]

Repentance and Forgiveness

"Oy for me from my (Evil) Nature [Yitzri], but Oy for me from my Creator [Yotzri]!": Eruvin 18a
Arousing the Good Nature over the Evil Nature: Berachot 5a
When the Evil Nature speaks, the Good Nature is nowhere to be found: Nedarim 32b
Tempting one's evil inclination: Berachot 20a
Using the study of Torah to defeat the Evil Inclination: Succah 52b; Kiddushin 30b [2x]
One is led in the way he wishes to go in: Shabbat 104a; Succah 53a
Mitzvot aid in quashing evil thoughts: Kiddushin 39b
The way in which the Evil Inclination grows daily, and only Gd's assistance allows us to triumph: Kiddushin 30b
Visiting the sick aids one in his battle against the Evil Inclination: Nedarim 40a
The Righteous are those who judge and conquer their inclinations: Megillah 15b
One should see himself as being half-and-half in Mitzvot and Transgressions: Kiddushin 40a-b
The value of involvement in Study of the Written and Oral Torah, and involvement in the society of others, to keep one from sin: Kiddushin 40b
Being surrounded by the mitzvot of tefillin, tzitzit and mezuzah guarantees protection against sinning: Menachot 43b
Protecting against the evil inclination with repentance and good deeds: Nedarim 32b
The story of a student whose Tzitzit-Fringes kept him from sinning: Menachot 44a
Kohelet's analogy for the human struggle with inclinations: Nedarim 32b
Ex-communication for arousing the evil inclination: Niddah 13b

A person may choose freely, but Gd may limit his options: Succah 53a
What Gd declares for the fate of a fertilized egg, and what Gd "leaves up to" the person: Niddah 16b
Gd giving humans control over their own awe of Heaven, and controlling all else: Megillah 25a; Niddah 16b

7 names of the Evil Inclination: Succah 52a
The Evil Nature's dependency on his human host: Kiddushin 30b
The opinions of Gd, Moshe, King David, King Shelomo, Isaiah, Yechezkel, and Yoel on the Evil Inclination: Succah 52a
Gd terming the Evil Inclination "Evil": Kiddushin 30b
Gd's "regret" for having created the Evil Inclination: Succah 52b
What the Evil Inclinations of the Wicked and of the Righteous are truly like: Succah 52a-b
What causes the Evil Inclination to grow or shrink: Succah 52b
The Evil Inclination would triumph daily, if not for the aid of Gd in defeating it: Succah 52a-b
The Evil Inclination testifying against its host in the World to Come: Succah 52b
The death of the Evil Inclination in The Future: Succah 52a
The eulogy for the Evil Inclination in The Future: Succah 52a
The desire of the Evil Inclination to slaughter its host: Succah 52b
One should not incite the Evil Nature, by "picking a fight" with it: Succah 38a
Prayers for help against the Evil Nature: Berachot 16b-17a
The Evil Nature is like the Yeast in Dough: Berachot 17a
The Evil Nature is like a foreign god inside a person: Shabbat 105b
The Evil Nature works by building up his demands: Shabbat 105b; Niddah 13b
The intense power of the Inclination for sexual fulfillment: Succah 52b
Destruction of the inclination for Idolatry: Yoma 69b
Destruction of the inclination for Adultery: Yoma 69b
The Evil Nature works via a person's Rage: Shabbat 105b
The Evil Nature makes people want disgusting things, fooling them into believing that the things are desirable: Shabbat 152a
Destructive acts of Rage are like idolatry, and lead to real idolatry: Shabbat 105b
Connection between Drunkenness and Adultery : Yoma 74b-75a
Connection between Drunkenness and Theft: Yoma 75a
Defeating the Evil Nature by helping one's Enemies: Bava Metzia 32b
Angels don't have an Evil Nature: Shabbat 89a
The profit of the wicked is bad for the righteous: Yevamot 103b
HaShem praises people who triumph in uniquely difficult battles with the Evil Nature, such as a bachelor in a big city, a rich man who separates his tithe in private, and a poor man who returns lost objects of others: Pesachim 113a
One who repeats a transgression begins to see it as permissible: Moed Katan 27b; Kiddushin 40a
One who finds that he can't defeat his evil nature, should dress in black, cover himself in black, and go where he is unknown: Moed Katan 17a [See Rashi]; Kiddushin 40a
Considering the permission of the Torah to marry a Prisoner of War, as a concession to people's Evil Side: Kiddushin 21b, 21b-22a


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