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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">RYGB writes: "I have been asked to address the fundamental statement made by Chazal (Koheles Rabbah 4:15) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">that is a core issue in the education of high school age students -- </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">viz., that while one is born with his or her yetzer ho'ra, the yetzer </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ha'tov only begins its development at the age of bar or bas mitzvah."</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">GL: There are also ma'amarei chazal (including some in the Zohar, I'm told) to the effect that one's neshomo first appears at age 12/13 and/or 20. Seems that we are discussing a process, not sudden appearances. When the process ripens it becomes fully a 'yetzer tov' or a 'neshomo'; not to say there is no yetzer tov whatsoever before that time.</FONT></P>
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