In the “Milhamah” universe, the Sefer Yetzer Ra’ (Book of Evil Inclination) is a corrupted revision of writings about the nature of the 22 Otiyot and how to combine and scramble them. The Bavel Macrostructure has these cryptic writings in its possession, and they serve as its conquest strategy for defeating the ‘Ivrit Revival Movement.
Bavel plans to “make a name for ourselves” by using the Yetzer Ra’ to create its propaganda. They interpret ways to twist Ha-Shem’s name to suit its purposes, control the Zodiac figures, invade through 231 gates, build the Migdal and otherwise censor and scramble the world’s languages into nonsense.
The Holy Tongue Society rejects large portions of the Sefer Yetzer Ra’ as corrupt and a gateway to Bavel’s proscribed magic, which abuses the Otiyot and steers people into confusion and lies.
- Shoresh family: עער
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In real life
The Sefer Yetzer Ra’ is largely based on the Sefer Yetzirah, a cryptic book about the Hebrew letters that has been interpreted in various ways, from linguistic to mystical.
Historically, Hebrew grammarian Dunash ibn Tamim believed that the real-life Sefer Yetzirah became corrupted over time, adding that “we have already established that there could be in this book other passages that Abraham the patriarch [never said] coming from the comments in Hebrew, to which ignorant people have added to the end, and the verity was lost meanwhile.”*
* Marla Segol, “Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah”
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