All Yetzer Virtues

The rabbinic doctrine of the yetzer, the inclination, a Jewish ethical-psychological scheme distinct from any other tradition's named virtue list gathered under this type. The yetzer hatov, the good inclination, is the rabbinic name for the impulse toward righteous conduct that the Mishnah holds matures in a person around the age of religious majority, conventionally paired against its opposing impulse, the yetzer hara.