"Satan" means "adversary" in Hebrew. It doesn't mean "Devil". It's not a proper name.
The "satan" of the Book of Job has no relation to the "Satan" that you are so afraid Katy Perry worships.
The Torah disagrees with you, Satan is clearly a Being, just like I am a Being, and you are a Being. God clearly has a conversation with this Being. You could throw 20,000 pages of Rabbinic literature to the contrary, it doesn't matter.
Given tat you are presuming to present what you claim is 'the Jewish view' - couldn't you have bothered to find an actual translation of the Hebrew Bible to quote? What would be best is something like the Mechon-Mamre interlineal version, so that one can compare the orginal language to the translation.
In fact, while 'ha-satan' is a being - it is more of a 'job description'. This is not at all problematic when one considers the Jewish concept of 'angels' as being 'thoughts' of GOD: any given angel exists only long enough to serve its intended purpose. A few are so important in function that they have been given names (all of which include a name of GOD)....
The 'yetzer ha-ra' is internal and separate from 'ha-satan': there is also a 'yetzer ha-tov'. Although they are called 'good' (tov) and 'evil' inclinations - they are not 'good' or 'evil' in the absolute. Let me try to illustrate - we might also call them 'altruism' and 'selfishness'.
If a person takes of his assets and gives so much to the poor that his own children go hungry - should that still be called 'good'?
If a person decides to build a house, plant a tree, or have a child - is that impulse 'evil'? The Jewish sages said those come from the yetzer ha-ra
Relating this a bit to the contemporary world: if I vote to support educational programs in my town, am I 'selfish' or 'generous'? Assuming the dear kidlets are kept busy with homework, they won't be traipsing about vandalizing property. And they will also be able to get better-paying jobs, and pay more in taxes - all of which will increase the price I can get for my home when I am ready to sell it.
Not necessarily. The Soton, the yetzer hora, the malakh hamoves are all the same thing. Also the Saneigor, the sitra achra, the baal davar, and the Samech Mem. So I've seen in seforim. They amount to the force that makes people do things they know to be wrong even though they know it intellectually. Sometimes they are externalized for dramatic purposes.
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