Good Urges vs Bad Urges
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Dennis delves into the idea that our good intentions often lead to more harm than our bad desires. This concept is rooted in a Jewish concept that suggests we're born with two wills: a good one and a bad one. The good urge tells us to do what's right, while the bad urge encourages us to take shortcuts and prioritize our own interests.
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| 0:00.0 | Life Audio |
| 0:03.0 | On today's episode of timeless wisdom. |
| 0:07.0 | The good urge, called in Hebrew Yateser Ha Tov, Tov means good, Yatesur is will, and the Yatesur |
| 0:14.5 | Hurrah means bad. |
| 0:17.0 | So the bad Yatesir and the good Yatesair are in conflict. |
| 0:21.5 | Right? |
| 0:21.9 | Right. |
| 0:22.6 | And we all have it every day. |
| 0:25.4 | It happens. |
| 0:26.7 | In fact, this so shaped my life as a child when I learned it, I still think of it every day all the time. |
| 0:33.4 | This is what my good urge is saying, my good Yates are saying. |
| 0:36.4 | This is what my bad Yatesir is saying. |
| 0:39.0 | It doesn't even apply just to, it always applies to ethical issues, but it could apply to, |
| 0:46.5 | do I have that cheesecake? |
| 0:48.3 | My bad Yateser says, come man, what the hell, You live once. It's delicious. You're a nut. |
| 0:56.3 | How are you going to forego that cheesecake? The other one says, well, you're, what, Dennis, come on, Dennis. |
| 1:02.2 | You know what, you know what enough cheesecake's going to do to you. That's coming up on timeless |
| 1:06.8 | wisdom with Dennis Prager. Rising interest rates, stock volatility, out of control inflation. |
| 1:12.5 | People are concerned about what the future holds financially. |
| 1:15.3 | This is Dennis Prager for AmFed, Coin, and Bullion. |
| 1:18.1 | There's no better time than the present to move a portion of your IRA into precious metals. |
| 1:22.3 | You should know there's a right and a wrong way to set up your precious metals IRA. |
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