Question: What is envy?

Answer: Envy is when you feel the other above yourself. When you depend on him, you envy him.

We look at everything from the point of view of Kabbalah where everything is measured in measures: Sefirot, degrees, Partzufim, and we proceed only from that. There is a small desire and a big one, one relative to the other. There is love, the conjugate state; hatred, the opposite state, and so on. Everything is very simple. In our world, however, everything is confusing.

The quality of envy is given to us in order to envy others and ascend through it. That is, envy is a very good quality. It must not be destroyed in any case! You have to envy good, great people, and then you will grow up too.

Everything that is in us comes from the Creator, so there is nothing wrong. Our most terrible qualities can be extrapolated and applied correctly.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What is Envy?” 3/13/11

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