If he said to him: Remove the chip from between your eyes, he replied: Remove the beam from between your eyes

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If he said to him: Remove the chip from between your eyes, he replied: Remove the beam from between your eyes

If he said to him: Remove the chip from between your eyes, he replied: Remove the beam from between your eyes

Figuratively: A situation of general corruption in which no one is worthy of reproaching another for a bad deed, for each person himself suffers from another moral flaw. Literally: If one says to his friend to fix a certain flaw in himself ('to remove the chip of wood from his eye'), his friend replies: You should fix an even greater flaw in yourself ('a beam of wood').

("It was taught: Rabbi Tarfon said, I wonder if there is anyone in this generation who accepts rebuke. If one says to him, Remove the chip from between your eyes, he replies, Remove the beam from between your eyes. Rabbi Elazar ben Azaria said: I wonder if there is anyone in this generation who knows how to rebuke." - Arachin 16b)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

אִם אָמַר לוֹ: טֹל קֵיסָם מֵבִין עֵינֶיךָ, אָמַר לוֹ : טֹל קוֹרָה מֵבִין עֵינֶיךָ

Definition (Hebrew)

בְּבְּהַשְׁאָלָה: מַצָּב שֶׁל שְׁחִיתוּת כְּלָלִית בּוֹ אֵין מִי שֶׁרָאוּי לְהוֹכִיחַ אֶת חֲבֵרוֹ עַל מַעֲשֵׂה רָע שֶׁעָשָׂה, כִּי כָּל אֶחָד בְּעַצְמוֹ לוֹקֶה בִּפְגָם מוּסָרִי אַחֵר. מִלּוּלִית: אִם הָאֶחָד אוֹמֵר לַחֲבֵרוֹ לְתַקֵּן פְּגָם מְסֻיָּם בְּעַצְמוֹ ('לִטֹּל קֵיסָם עֵץ שֶׁבְּעֵינוֹ'), עוֹנֶה לוֹ הֶחָבֵר: תְּתַקֵּן אַתָּה בְּעַצְמְךָ פְּגָם גָּדוֹל יוֹתֵר שֶׁיֵּשׁ בְּךָ ('קוֹרַת עֵץ').

("תָּנִיא, אָמַר רַבִּי טָרְפוּן: תַּמָּה אֲנִי אִם יֵשׁ בְּדוֹר הַזֶּה שֶׁמְּקַבֵּל תּוֹכֵחָה, אִם אָמַר לוֹ טֹל קֵיסַם מִבֵּין עֵינֶיךָ, אָמַר לוֹ טֹל קוֹרֶה מִבֵּין עֵינֶיךָ. אָמַר רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן עֲזַרְיָה: תְּמֵהֵנִי אִם יֵשׁ בְּדוֹר הַזֶּה שֶׁיּוֹדֵעַ לְהוֹכִיחַ"- עֲרָכִין טז ע"ב)

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