Review גמרא דף נב: “אמר ר’ יונתן יצר הרע מסיתו (thirteen lines from top of the Amud) and continue learning the Gemara until “ארבעה חרשים (middle of the wide line)
Questions:
Why does the pasuk refer to the fact that yetzer harah testifies against a person in a hidden gematria form?
What kind of parable is the different manifestation of the yetzer harah as stranger, guest, and master?
See בן יהוידע
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14473&st=&pgnum=168&hilite=
How do we explain that Hashem regrets as Hashem is perfect and does not make mistakes?
First place it mentions that Hashem has regret – וינחם is בראשית פרק ו פסוק ו
See Rav Shamshon Rafael Hirsch on the above pasuk who explains the difference between the regret of Hashem and the regret of man.
But we still need an explanation of the regret for the four areas listed in our gemara?
Learn ערוך לנר
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14414&st=&pgnum=206
and בן יהוידע
Why specifically these four areas?
Learn מהרש”א
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14319&st=&pgnum=509
See מהר”ל תפארת ישראל פרק יג pg. רט הערה 67 (in Rabbi Hartman explanation)
See מהר”ל נתיבות עולם – נתיב כח היצר פרק ד ” היצה”ר שברא
Continue learning the Gemara until the two dots.