Quote of the Month

Know that the word satan derives from [the verb “satah,” to turn away, figuring for instance in the verse] .”Steh [turn away] from it and pass on” (Proverbs 4:15); I mean to say that it derives from the notion of turning away and going away. For it is he who indubitably turns people away from the ways of truth and makes them perish in the ways of error. […] They also say that the evil inclination is produced in the human individual at birth: “Sin croucheth at the door” (Genesis 4:7); as the Torah states literally: “From his youth” (Genesis 8:21). On the other hand, good inclination is only found in a person when his intellect is perfected.
 

(Moses Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed III:22)