Comentario citado sobre 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:

Todos los que poseen estos tres atributos son de los discípulos de nuestro padre Abraham; y (todos los que poseen) otros tres atributos son de los discípulos del malvado Bilam: (si posee) un buen ojo y un espíritu humilde y un alma humilde, él es de los discípulos de nuestro padre Abraham. [Aprendió de él y caminó en su camino: "Un buen ojo"— contento con lo que tiene y sin desear la riqueza de los demás, como encontramos con Abraham, quien le dijo al rey de Sodoma (Génesis 14:22): "Nada — desde un hilo hasta un cierre de sandalia (me quedaré para mí, y no tomaré nada que sea tuyo. "" Y un espíritu humilde " —exceder la humildad, como encontramos con Abraham, a saber. (Ibid. 18:27): "y yo soy polvo y cenizas"; "y un alma humilde"—vigilancia y separación de la lujuria, como encontramos con Abraham, a saber. (Ibid. 12:11: "He aquí, ahora sé que eres una mujer hermosa", sin haber sido consciente de su belleza debido a su gran modestia.) (Si posee) un mal de ojo, un espíritu altivo y un alma "amplia", él es de los discípulos del malvado Bilam. [Bilam tenía "un mal de ojo", sabiendo que a los ojos del Señor era malo para él ir a Balak, pero de todos modos ir por el bien de recompensa, a saber (Números 22:18): "Si Balac me da su casa llena de plata y oro, etc.", "y un espíritu altivo" (dicho de sí mismo) (Ibid. 24:16): "El discurso del oyente de las palabras del Todopoderoso y el conocedor del conocimiento del Altísimo ";" y un alma "amplia". Porque si no fuera extremadamente lujurioso, no habría aconsejado abandonar a las hijas de Moav a la prostitución. Y nuestros sabios dijeron (Sanedrín 105a): "Bilam vivió con su burro". ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre los discípulos de nuestro padre Abraham y los discípulos del malvado Bilam? Los discípulos de nuestro padre Abraham comen en este mundo y herede el mundo venidero, como está escrito (Proverbios 8:21): "Tengo mucho que legar a mis amantes [en el mundo venidero], y sus provisiones llenaré [en este mundo]" [Abraham se llama "amante" a saber. (Isaías 41: 8): "la simiente de Abraham, mi amante".] Pero los discípulos del malvado Bilam heredan Gehinnom y descienden al pozo de destrucción, como está escrito (Salmos 55:24): "Y tú, Oh Di-s, los bajarás al pozo de la destrucción. Hombres de derramamiento de sangre [(por ejemplo, Bilam, quien por su consejo mató a veinticuatro mil de Israel)] y el engaño no reducirá a la mitad sus días, pero confiaré en ti ".

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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