Mareh Makom

Envy

• Envy: when looking at another turns into murder
  Why did the first murder in history stem not from scarcity, but from a glance?
  And the Lord paid heed to Abel and to his offering.
• Envy: when someone else's success becomes an inner pain
  Why does good fortune happening to others feel like a personal threat?
  Envy is the tendency to view the well-being of another with anxiety,
• Envy: how the weight of a coat of many colors overturned morality and birthed exile
  Is envy merely an emotion, or a creative force that shapes entire value systems?
  "A person should never treat one son differently [discriminate] among the sons,
• Envy: The hidden fuel that drives the world
  What if envy isn't the enemy, but the essential engine of life?
  Anyone who loves, and does not bind jealousy with it, his love is no love.
• Envy: The journey from an affliction of the soul to discovering one's personal calling
  Why is God called a 'jealous God' and yet rules over jealousy rather than being enslaved by it?
  I rule over jealousy, and jealousy does not rule over Me.