Two Rabbinic Inclinations? Rethinking a Scholarly Dogma

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" Two Rabbinic Inclinations? Rethinking a Scholarly Dogma "
Ishay Rosen-Zvi

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1074788
Doc. No	:	LA118417
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157006308X315164‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Ishay Rosen-Zvi
Title & Author	:	Two Rabbinic Inclinations? Rethinking a Scholarly Dogma [Article]\ Ishay Rosen-Zvi
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal for the Study of Judaism
Date	:	2008
Volume/ Issue Number	:	39/4-5
Page No	:	513–539
Abstract	:	The scholarly consensus on the Rabbinic concept of the yetzer (inclination) takes for granted the existence of two yetzarim, good and evil, in every person. Some have noticed the marginality of the good yetzer in rabbinic discourse, as well as the fact that most sources discuss only one yetzer, but ascribed it to the inherent imbalance of power between the two yetzarim. In this paper I wish to rethink this scholarly consensus, while taking the single-yetzer model, which appears in almost all rabbinic sources, seriously. A systematic analysis of all rabbinic references to the yetzer, which attempts to distinguish as much as possible between sources, both chronologically (early or late), and geographically (Palestinian or Babylonian), yields a picture markedly different from the common view, and helps locate the (rather marginal) place of the two yetzarim in context of the rabbinic corpus in its entirety.
Descriptor	:	ANTHROPOLOGY
Descriptor	:	DEMONOLOGY
Descriptor	:	DUALITY
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	INCLINATION
Descriptor	:	ISHMAEL
Descriptor	:	Jewish Studies
Descriptor	:	MISHNA
Descriptor	:	QUMRAN
Descriptor	:	RABBI AKIVA
Descriptor	:	RABBINIC
Descriptor	:	SPIRITS
Descriptor	:	TANNAIM
Descriptor	:	YETZER
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157006308X315164‬