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Evil Inclination vs Good Inclination Zera Shimshon Rabbi Yakov Yakubov

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Thank you everybody for coming. Welcome. Seeing everyone's faces. A lot of new faces today. We have Mik over here. Eran Gabriel we had last week. Three of my wife's uncles. We're coming up to the days very special days. Right. We've been building throughout this whole month this month of what have we been doing? We've been, you know, fixing ourselves, doing some more mitzvah, fixing our trying to get closer to Hashem, right? And we're coming to these 10 special days where Hashem says during these, Hashem is mash right over here. He is right here and he's waiting for us to come closer. And it's like a sigula likeashana says during these 10 days a individual he doesn't need no he doesn't need nobody to help him he himself could connect to the creator of the world and he can forgive all of his sins. Now there's many topics onash there many topics we could go into but I want to focus on one specific one. There was a certain entity that was created in the beginning of the world. The Shaam created it and it says in the Gmorrah, it's one of the four things that Hashem regretted to have formed. This being is the source of our sin. He's the instigator of all our fights and he is the seducer to all our temptations. He's always there and he's always trying to get us to sin. He has a lot of names, but he's called famously the Satan. The Satan, translated loosely in English, is called the prosecutor. So, first he puts on his little cap. His cap is called Har. It's called evil inclination. And he goes around and from the day that we're born when we're little babies, the

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