Does resenting other people’s success block my own?

Rabbi Landau teaches that the moment you resent someone else’s success, you are blocking your own. If you really want to make money, “stop trying to be the only one winning.”

Some people don’t just want to succeed; they want to succeed alone. They want to walk into the room and be the richest one there, “not one of, the one.” But that is not how wealth works. “Money is energy, it flows, and it flows through relationship.”

He quotes the verse “Tov ayin hu yevorach”: if you have a good eye and are happy when others succeed, you are blessed. So make sure the people around you make money with you. If they benefit from your success, you will benefit when they succeed. It becomes a chain reaction, and you become the pipeline.

As Rabbi Landau puts it, “You will never be rich until you want everyone around you to be richer.”

Also answered in this teaching

Why does jealousy hurt the jealous person?

In A Soul at Peace, Rabbi Landau writes that a person is a channel for blessing. A good eye widens the channel, while the bitterness of an evil eye is a blockage that narrows it, first in the one who carries it.

Going deeper: Rabbi Landau's teaching, level by level

Surface claim

Wanting to be the only one winning blocks the flow of your own success.

Fear, vulnerability, or tension

When a friend succeeds, many people feel a small pinch in the heart. In A Soul at Peace, Rabbi Landau writes that this comes from thinking of wealth as a pie, where every bigger slice for someone else is a smaller one for you.

What may be behind it

Rabbi Landau teaches that money is energy and it flows through relationships, so the one who wants others to prosper becomes the pipeline.

Deepest human truth

One who has a good eye will be blessed. As Rabbi Landau writes, the good eye is not a reward from outside; it is the very way blessing arrives.

More questions from this teaching

• What does “one who has a good eye will be blessed” mean?