Zitat Kommentar zu Pirkei Avot 5:19

כָּל מִי שֶׁיֵּשׁ בְּיָדוֹ שְׁלשָׁה דְבָרִים הַלָּלוּ, מִתַּלְמִידָיו שֶׁל אַבְרָהָם אָבִינוּ. וּשְׁלשָׁה דְבָרִים אֲחֵרִים, מִתַּלְמִידָיו שֶׁל בִּלְעָם הָרָשָׁע. עַיִן טוֹבָה, וְרוּחַ נְמוּכָה, וְנֶפֶשׁ שְׁפָלָה, מִתַּלְמִידָיו שֶׁל אַבְרָהָם אָבִינוּ. עַיִן רָעָה, וְרוּחַ גְּבוֹהָה, וְנֶפֶשׁ רְחָבָה, מִתַּלְמִידָיו שֶׁל בִּלְעָם הָרָשָׁע. מַה בֵּין תַּלְמִידָיו שֶׁל אַבְרָהָם אָבִינוּ לְתַלְמִידָיו שֶׁל בִּלְעָם הָרָשָׁע. תַּלְמִידָיו שֶׁל אַבְרָהָם אָבִינוּ, אוֹכְלִין בָּעוֹלָם הַזֶּה וְנוֹחֲלִין בָּעוֹלָם הַבָּא, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (משלי ח) לְהַנְחִיל אֹהֲבַי יֵשׁ, וְאֹצְרֹתֵיהֶם אֲמַלֵּא. אֲבָל תַּלְמִידָיו שֶׁל בִּלְעָם הָרָשָׁע יוֹרְשִׁין גֵּיהִנֹּם וְיוֹרְדִין לִבְאֵר שַׁחַת, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (תהלים נה) וְאַתָּה אֱלֹהִים תּוֹרִידֵם לִבְאֵר שַׁחַת, אַנְשֵׁי דָמִים וּמִרְמָה לֹא יֶחֱצוּ יְמֵיהֶם, וַאֲנִי אֶבְטַח בָּךְ:

Jeder, der folgende drei Dinge an sich hat, gehört zu den Schülern unseres Vaters Abraham; wer aber drei andere Dinge an sich hat, gehört zu Schülern des ruchlosen Bileam. Ein gutes Auge, ein bescheidenes Gemüt und ein demütiger Sinn sind Kennzeichen der Schüler unseres Vaters Abraham. Ein böses Auge, ein stolzer Sinn und eine unmäßige Gier sind Kennzeichen der Schüler des ruchlosen Bileam. Was ist der Unterschied zwischen den Schülern unseres Vaters Abraham und den Schülern des ruchlosen Bileam? Die Schüler unseres Vaters Abraham genießen in dieser Welt und ererben die zukünftige Welt, wie es heißt (Spr. 8, 21): „Ich lasse erben meine Freunde wesentliches Gut und ihre Schätze fülle ich. “ denn es heißt (Ps. 55, 24): „Du aber, o Gott, stürzest sie hinab in die Grube des Verderbens; die Männer der Blutschuld und des Truges erreichen nicht die Hälfte ihrer Tage; ich aber vertraue auf Dich.“

Rashi

וישא בלעם את עיניו AND BALAAM LIFTED UP HIS EYES — he wished to cast the evil eye upon them. Thus you have his three characteristics — an evil eye mentioned here, and pride and greed which have been mentioned above (see Rashi on Numbers 22:13 and 18).
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Haamek Sheilah

Translator’s note: The Netziv is going to explain that Tractate Avos has a different understanding of this verse.
Relevant to understanding this verse Tractate Avos, chapter 5,7Mishnah 22. explains the phrase “I will fill their storehouses” as referring to those who love God by serving Him out of love, as the Mishnah states: The disciples of our Patriarch Abraham enjoy the fruits of their good deeds in this world and inherit the World to Come, as Scripture states: “I will cause those who love Me to inherit an everlasting possession and I will fill their storehouses.”8I translated Prov. 8:21 slightly differently than before in order to facilitate the flow of the Mishnah. It is clear that the phrase “those who love Me” alludes to the disciples of Abraham, who are referred to as “the descendants of Abraham, who loved Me,”9Isa. 41:8. for Abraham served God out of love, as I wrote in my [commentary] Ha’amek She’elah] 145:24.10There the Netziv writes, based on the Bereshis Rabbah, parashah 44, and Tractate Hullin 89a, that when Abraham saved Lot by defeating the four kings and refused any share of the plunder (as described in Gen. chapter 14), he demonstrated that he served God totally out of love. Abraham is described in Isa. 41:7 as the following: “He who strikes with the anvil” (Abraham who struck the Four Kings); “[God] says of the soldering: ‘It is good.’” In other words, Abraham had unified heaven and earth by acting totally out of love for God and by enabling Divine providence to enter the world. [The Mishnah] explains “inherit an everlasting possession” in the World to Come, and “fill their storehouses” with reward in this world. However, R. Yehoshua ben Levi [unlike the Mishnah] explains that the entire verse is discussing this world, as we have explained above.[
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Ikar Tosafot Yom Tov

And "he has an evil eye regarding himself" because he has brazenness of the heart. And it is not similar to "he has an evil eye regarding others" - Rashi. But rather it is to say, it is like the "evil eye" in Mishnah 19, [of the one] who does not suffice with what is his and covets that which is fitting for the poor person. And there is an objection: If so, he is an evildoer, as he transgresses against "do not harden your heart." And it is possible that here we are speaking about the [case] that there is no lack to the poor person and it comes out that he does not harden his heart from giving to the poor person what he lacks. And if [the poor person] did not have someone to give to him, he would have given. And his desire is to give when he finds a poor person who has no givers; and nonetheless, this is brazenness of heart. And now it comes out well that "[to] give and [that] others give -- [that's a] pious person"; as there is an objection that such is the temperament of every man. But rather here it is concerning a poor person who has what he needs, through the giving of one of them. But he wants that he give and [also that others] give - so as to fill his requirements with plenty. It is fitting that such a person be called a pious person. So does it appear to me.
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