{"id":35075,"date":"2018-07-23T23:40:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T20:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=35075"},"modified":"2022-02-14T16:58:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T14:58:07","slug":"the-devisings-of-the-human-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-devisings-of-the-human-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devisings of The Human Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[370,374,400],"acf":{"old_id":"35075","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34284,"related_cahpter":"8","type_929":"2","show_author_image":true,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"...but there is no guilt in the earth....","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Since the devisings of man\u2019s mind are evil from his youth&#8221; (Genesis 8:21). This is the testimony of the Omnipotent One. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of this conclusio<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">n, one should not blame and punish the earth and &#8220;every living being&#8221; only because of the conduct of human beings. &#8220;A person shall be put to death only for his own crime&#8221; (Deuteronomy 24:16), it is said later, and from here it begins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevertheless, what is to be done with this sentence &#8211; &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the devisings of man\u2019s mind are evil from his youth?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; In fact, things are very clear. After the complete destruction, with the first signs of life and the first sacrifice on Noah&#8217;s altar: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Lord smelled the pleasing odor, and the Lord said to Himself: \u201cNever again will I doom the earth because of man, since the devisings of man\u2019s mind are evil from his youth\u201d (Genesis 8:21).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The words &#8220;the devisings of man\u2019s mind are evil from his youth&#8221; are a parenthetical expression, explains Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch: &#8220;If the \u201cdevisings of man\u2019s mind\u201d should be \u201cevil\u201d again, \u00a0and even \u201cfrom his youth,\u201d (which goes against a child\u2019s nature because typically children by their nature try to do what is right), so that the only way to save the world is through the destruction of that generation, even if it happens again, \u201cI will never again destroy\u201d (Genesis 8:21). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the deficiency, \u201cthe devisings of man\u2019s mind are evil from his youth,\u201d is not clear. And the reasons that this would be the case are also not clear. Only the conclusion is clear and the fact that it came from the Omnipotent One.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It follows that since &#8220;the Lord God formed man from the dust of the earth&#8221; (2:7) and furthermore, that there is no guilt in the earth, given that the Omnipotent One already cleansed it, means, therefore, that the \u201cevil inclination\u201d comes specifically with \u201cthe breath of life\u201d which God blew into us, \u201cHe blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being\u201d (Genesis 2:7).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On this point Yehuda Halevi wrote, with heartbreaking helplessness in a poem, \u201cOh God, only You I desire\u2026.How can I serve my Creator, when I, enmeshed in images, am a slave to desire?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":67678,"id":67678,"title":"is45-good and 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