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According to תוס'
הרי"ד, (Bava Kama 83a) a person can bring an
עין הרע on oneself.
He explains the Pasuk "
'איכה ג) "עיני עוללה לנפשי מכל בנות עירי)
" My own (bad) eye did harm on
myself, more than all daughters of my city"
Some learn Pshat in the Gemoro
(Brachos 55b)
"ואי
דחיל מעינא בישא דיליה"
one places on
himself עין רע refers to the
The
רע"ב (Bartenura) explains the Mishna in Avos
(Perek 2: 11)
ר"י אומר עין הרע - מוציאין את האדם מן העולם
The עין הרע is
not from others on him but from the person himself. By not being
satisfied and happy with what he has and being jealous of others, this
is the עין הרע the cause for him to be removed from the world.
In other words, it's not that others kill him but he kills himself.
טוב עין הוא יבורך משלי כ"ב
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Josep Borrell Fontelles, the newly elected
ReplyDeleteChairman of the European Union,
recently said in an interview in Politico:
“Iran wants to wipe Israel out,
nothing new about that.
You have to live with it.”
SOURCE:
Lessons in the appeasement of Iran
by Sarah N. Stern [President of the Endowment
for Middle East Truth] 2019 July 12
www.jns.org/opinion/lessons-in-the-appeasement-of-iran/