We have the neshama and the guf. The neshama has a tendency to strive towards above and the guf for below. Which overpowers which? The question is how can we both get a reward and punishment? If one has tendency to turn to the right, above why a reward? On the other hand, if the tendency is vice versa, why a punishment? They say that the tendency is to do the right thing and in order to reward us Hashem created the yetzer hara and that is for our benefit to get rewarded once we don’t follow him. Shechara ani venava. Now we have a tendency to do bad but we get punished because we also have the yetzer tov and the neshama.
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