Our Sages teach that the greater a person is the greater is his Yetzer Hora, his Evil Inclination. Why is this so?
It is a well known Kabbalistic concept that the primary drive behind Creation was because God desired to give Good to others. The Baal HaSulam teaches that as God's capacity to give is infinite He had to create an almost infinite capacity to receive His Goodness. Creating the ability to receive was the seminal act of Creation. This capacity to receive is un-Godlike as God is only a giver and not a receiver. As such, the ability to receive is synonymous with the Yetzer Hora as it is the epitome of un-Godliness.
Ultimately, our challenge as humans is to take our ability to receive and channel it into being givers. By doing so, we connect back with God and have raised the spiritual level of the world by bringing things full-circle. As a person gives he enlarges his capacity to receive bringing it ever closer to the almost infinite capacity to receive created by God.
This is why as a person becomes greater, i.e. he increases his giving of what he has to others, his Yetzer Hora, his capacity to receive, increases as well.
It is a well known Kabbalistic concept that the primary drive behind Creation was because God desired to give Good to others. The Baal HaSulam teaches that as God's capacity to give is infinite He had to create an almost infinite capacity to receive His Goodness. Creating the ability to receive was the seminal act of Creation. This capacity to receive is un-Godlike as God is only a giver and not a receiver. As such, the ability to receive is synonymous with the Yetzer Hora as it is the epitome of un-Godliness.
Ultimately, our challenge as humans is to take our ability to receive and channel it into being givers. By doing so, we connect back with God and have raised the spiritual level of the world by bringing things full-circle. As a person gives he enlarges his capacity to receive bringing it ever closer to the almost infinite capacity to receive created by God.
This is why as a person becomes greater, i.e. he increases his giving of what he has to others, his Yetzer Hora, his capacity to receive, increases as well.
