Based on our current discussion, we can shed some new light on HKB”H’s pronouncement to Yisrael (Kiddushin 30b): "בני בראתי יצר הרע ובראתי לו תורה תבלין, ואם אתם עוסקים בתורה אין אתם נמסרים בידו"—My son, I created the yetzer hara, and I have created Torah as its antidote. If you engage in Torah-study, you will not be delivered into its hand. Now, we are taught in the Gemara (Succah 52a): "שבעה שמות יש לו ליצר הרע"—the yetzer hara has seven names. The Maharsha and the Rama (Toras HaOlah, part 2, chapter 26) explain that these seven appellations represent seven evil forces corresponding to the seven days of creation. This coincides magnificently with the statement in the Gemara (ibid.): "יצרו של אדם מתגבר עליו בכל יום, שנאמר רק רע כל היום"—a man’s yetzer overwhelms him every day, as it states (Bereishis 6, 5): “Was only for evil all day long.” They specifically said, “every day,” to teach us that the yetzer hara uses a specific one of its seven forces of tumah for each day of the week. As we learn from the Gemara, they can only be overcome through the study of Torah that transcends the seven days of creation.
Understood in this light, HKB”H told Yisrael: “I have created the yetzer hara,” who has seven distinct names corresponding to the seven days of creation. Their powers exist solely within the realm of nature, which was created during the seven days of creation. However: “I have created the Torah as its antidote,” because the Torah was given to Yisrael after the seven weeks of Sefiras HaOmer, on the fiftieth day, which is like the supernatural number eight. Therefore, the kedushah of the Torah, which is supernatural, has the power to negate and eliminate the yetzer hara, whose seven forces can only function within the natural order of the seven days of creation.
