Q&A: Regarding the Animal Soul
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Regarding the Animal Soul
Question
The Rabbi said in a lesson that there is good and evil in the animal soul, and that in reality, when the mind is in control, it is almost never evil. I think that in Sodom, you could say that their evil did not stem from the animal soul but rather from an ideology. Or is it that even in Sodom, their evil stemmed from the animal soul?
Answer
I don’t know how to answer that. In general, it’s hard for me to imagine a person or a group who understand that something is evil and nevertheless do it not under the influence of impulse or self-interest, but out of choice.