The concept of envy in Jewish law

Abstract

Jewish law has known envy since the writing of its first books. It is full of evidence indicating this, although there are those who argue that the stories of envy and the words that indicate this are merely expressions of greed, avarice, miserliness, etc., and Israeli thought, which was influenced by many political, religious and social turns, is what prompted Jewish legislators to create many metaphors. Which describes an individual’s personality through his physical characteristics. Upon cognitive reading of the passages mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and their relationship to envy and the evil eye, we find that it is in fact a mixture of metaphors and references to theoretical and practical practices, some of which led to envy. Perhaps what the following pages will show will show that the view of thinkers The Jews point to the issue of envy derived from their tendency to link the organs of the human body to its environment as an essential factor