Without the evil eye / Touch wood! / May the evil eye have no power!

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Without the evil eye / Touch wood! / May the evil eye have no power!

Without the evil eye / Touch wood! / May the evil eye have no power!

Without any harm from bad luck. Without envy. May it be in good fortune. An expression conveying a wish or encouragement.

("There is no opening for evil here, no foreign thoughts or evil musings, no evil eye on these people" – Seder Hatarat Nedarim; also: "Let each enter through his door, so that the evil eye does not rule over them, for all are handsome and all are strong" – Rashi, Genesis 42:5; also: "And especially, not just one daughter, but three daughters, without the evil eye, and all are grown, all have reached their marriageable age" – Sholem Aleichem, Adam Baal-Keivah, Etz; also: "Seven, eight years ago, when I saw him in Acre he was a gentle and pleasant boy, and now, without the evil eye, he grows like a cedar in Lebanon" – Y. Burla, Kisufim, 92)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

בְּלִי עַיִן הָרַע, בְּלֹא עַיִן הָרַע

Definition (Hebrew)

לְלֹא כָּל פְּגִיעָה שֶׁל הַמַּזָּל הָרַע.לְלֹא צָרוֹת עַיִן. שֶׁיִּהְיֶה בְּמַזָּל טוֹב. בִּטּוּי הַמַּבִּיעַ מִשְׁאָלָה אוֹ הַבָּעַת עִידוּד.

("אֵין כָּאן פִּתְחוֹן פֶּה לְרָעָה, אֵין כָּאן מַחְשָׁבוֹת זָרוֹת וְהִרְהוּרִים רָעִים, אֵין כָּאן עַיִן הָרַע דֶּאֲנָשִׁים"-סֵדֶר הַתָּרַת נְדָרִים, וְכֵן: "שֶׁיִּכָּנֵס כָּל אֶחָד בְּפִתְחוֹ, כְּדֵי שֶׁלֹּא תִּשְׁלֹט בָּהֶם עַיִן הָרָע, שֶׁכֻּלָּם נָאִים וְכֻלָּם גִּבּוֹרִים"- רָשִׁ"י בְּרֵאשִׁית מב ה, וְכֵן: "וּבִפְרָט, שֶׁלֹּא בַּת אַחַת לִי, אֶלָּא שָׁלוֹשׁ בָּנוֹת, בְּלֹא עַיִן הָרַע, וְכֻלָּן בּוֹגְרוֹת, כֻּלָּן כְּבָר הִגִּיעוּ לְפִרְקָן"- שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם/ אָדָם בַּעַל קֵבָה, עז, וְכֵן: "לִפְנֵי שֶׁבַע, שְׁמוֹנֶה שָׁנִים, כְּשֶׁרְאִיתִיו בְּעַכּוֹ הָיָה נַעַר רַךְ וְנָעִים וְעַתָּה, בְּלֹא עַיִן הָרַע, כְּאֶרֶז בִּלְבָנוֹן יִשְׂגֶּה"- י.בּוּרְלָא/ כִּסּוּפִים, 92)

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