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• Berakhot 58a teaches that as faces differ so do minds differ, and the Shekhinah gives wisdom to each according to his capacity — Proverbs 21:1 "the king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; He turns it wherever He will" is the political warfare master key: geopolitical force is ultimately a divine hydraulic system, and the Sitra Achra's apparent control of kings and empires is subject to immediate divine re-channeling.
• Avot 4:21 teaches that envy, lust, and honor-seeking drive a person out of the world — Proverbs 21:4 "haughty eyes and a proud heart — the lamp of the wicked — is sin" assigns the proud look its own category of sinful light: the Sitra Achra issues its agents counterfeit illumination, making its darkness appear as a guiding lamp to those seduced by status.
• Sanhedrin 22b teaches that an altar weeps for one whose first wife was divorced — Proverbs 21:19 "it is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman" is read in spiritual warfare context as the Talmud's recognition that the domestic environment is a primary spiritual theater: the Sitra Achra's infiltration of the household through strife is a precision attack on the primary covenant unit.
• Bava Metzia 83b records the debate over whether one who has no fixed Torah study time can be penalized — Proverbs 21:5 "the plans of the diligent lead to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty" encodes the deliberate-pace warfare doctrine: the Sitra Achra induces urgency and reactivity in the warrior to disrupt the deliberate planning that leads to sustainable spiritual accumulation.
• Shabbat 89b records that at the end of days, God will bring the Torah scroll and say "whoever occupied himself with this, let him take his reward" — Proverbs 21:31 "the horse is made ready for the day of battle, but victory belongs to the Lord" is the eschatological disarmament of strategic pride: all preparation, all discipline, all weapon-sharpening — the Sitra Achra is ultimately defeated not by superior warrior performance but by divine prerogative.