Hello! First of all, afaik, I’m not jewish, but I believe in Judaism, and am studying the Torah. In my studies, I have found, to my surprise, that the concept of Original Sin is Christian, and not Jewish. I read that instead, for Judaism humans are born with both Yetzer HaTov and Yetzer HaRa. I confess that, since I grew up Catholic and studied Catholic theology, this is kind of confusing for me, so I would like to ask someone more enlightened than I am.
First, is it wrong to say that the sin of Adam is the cause of death entering the world? If I’m not mistaken, it is said elsewhere in the TaNaKh that the world was created perfect, and without death. I have always believed that, since G-d commanded Adam to “master” the creation, since Adam sinned, creation also suffered the consequences of sin. Am I wrong?
Second, if my first assumption is wrong, how is it that death got into the world?
Finally, in Christianity there’s the doctrine that the inclination towards evil wasn’t as intense before the sin of Adam as it became after it. From what I understand, this teaching is not in the Torah?
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