Why Can Envy of Another Person End Up Clouding Our Own Life?
Why can envy of someone else's success end up harming the person who envies?
This Hagut Yosef essay uses the image of a horse that muddies its own drinking water while trying to drive away a rival. It connects that image to jealousy and narrow-mindedness: another person's success does not take away what is meant for us, while envy can disturb our own inner clarity. The localized layer preserves the Torah-based moral teaching without adding new factual or halakhic claims.