2020-08-11 – LH3 – OC3 – Purim 5 – Para. 1b-5 – Good Eye vs. Evil Eye; Eretz Yisrael is Central to the Downfall of Evil

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 55.
00:57 – TOWARDS END OF PARAGRAPH 1. Witnessing the downfall of evil.
05:17 – Summary of ayin tov (“good eye”) and ayin ra (“evil eye”).
04:24 – PARAGRAPH 2.
12:53 – NOTE: Oral tradition in Breslov is that “leyasheyv atzmo heyteyv” to “thing something over carefully” alludes to hisbodedus (personal prayer in one’s own words).
14:32 – PARAGRAPH 3. Tzedaka (charity) is an aspect of a “good eye.” “A person with a good eye is blessed…” (Mishlei/Proverbs 22:9).
20:31 – Point related to this week’s parsha, Re’Eh.
23:15 – PARAGRAPH 4.
26:31 – Eretz Yisrael is all about tov ayin. Haman’s hatred of Mordechai was based on Haman’s jealousy.
28:13 – PARAGRAPH 5.
31:19 – The main reason for not becoming subject to an evil eye. The goal is to have faith in HaKadosh Baruch Hu.
37:56 – Ra ayin is a result of something evil in the heart.
38:31 – Chokhma and Binah. The main task is for a person to prevent himself from having an ayin ra (seeing things in a negative light).
41:20 – The positive effect of extending the benefit of the doubt even to a person who seems to be doing evil. How the entire Torah, from bereishis to aynei Yisrael, is about the eyes.