890. The Sorrow of the Shechina – 2

“For a sin we sinned against You with the evil inclination” (from the Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement] prayer).

We should ask, “But all the transgressions come from the evil inclination?” We should interpret that the sin is in saying that there is an evil inclination instead of “There is none else besides Him.” If a person is unworthy, he is thrown out from above. This comes by clothing in the will to receive, called the “evil inclination.”

This is the meaning of “For the inclination of a man’s heart is evil from his youth,” meaning that the Creator created him this way, since the will to receive is the actual Kli [vessel], except it must be correct. By this we can interpret what is written, “He was saddened in his heart.” Man feels that following the inclination gives him sadness, and this is called “the sorrow of the Shechina [Divinity].”