Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
The yetzer tov is the moral conscience, the inner voice that reminds you of God's law when
you consider doing something that is forbidden. According to some views, it does not enter a
person until his 13th birthday, when he becomes responsible for following the commandments.
The "image" of the Creator is the ability to discern and reason
• Humanity has an inclination to both good and evil
• Free will is the ability to choose which inclination to follow
man did not fall in sin out of ignorance or out of compulsion; he was in complete knowledge of
what he was supposed to do and what he shouldn’t. He made the choice consciously and
voluntarily.
In Jewish tradition, the Tree of Knowledge and the eating of its fruit represents the
beginning of the mixture of good and evil together. Before that time, the two were separate,
and evil had only a nebulous existence in potentia. While free choice did exist before eating
the fruit, evil existed as an entity separate from the human psyche, and it was not in human
nature to desire it. Eating and internalizing the forbidden fruit changed this and thus was born
the yeitzer hara, the Evil Inclination
http://www.yashanet.com/studies/judaism101/lessons/lesson_1-3.htm
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Hebrew: חיים משה ‏,לוצאטו also Moses Chaim, Moses Hayyim,
alsoLuzzato) (1707-1746 AD), also known by the Hebrew acronym RaMCHaL (or RaMHaL,
was a prominent Italian Jewish rabbi, kabbalist, and philosopher. Most of the material ‏,(ל"רמח
in this site refers to Ramchal's analysis.
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