To make someone's life miserable/ to embitter someone's life/ to torment

To make someone's life very difficult; to harass or oppress them.

("Come and see, the measure of the holy one, blessed be he, is not the measure of flesh and blood. The measure of flesh and blood, he who mocks his neighbor - he goes down with him to his life. But the holy one, blessed be he, is not like that, he who curses the brazen one - he goes up to the top of his whoredoms with him, he goes down to the bed of his whoredoms with him. He who curses Canaan - he eats what his master eats, and he drinks what he drinks. He drinks a lot. Curse the woman - all are satisfied after her, curse the earth - all are fed on the right hand" - Yoma 3:1, and so: "We have established that a man should be with his son from birth until he is twelve years old, from here and there he will go down with him to his life" - Kitabot 5:1, and so: "He who calls his friend a servant shall be cut off, A bastard-absorber of the four, a wicked man-descends with him to his life!" - Kiddushin Kohach A"A, as in: "If a simple man did this thing, they would descend to his life" - Y.L. Peretz/ Seder Shel Klavim, Na, and as in: "And in the sin of Parnassus a man descends to the life of his friend and is prepared to steal and to rob and to kill the soul and to do all "Abomination" - Peace be upon you/ If I were Rothschild, Kant, and so on: "If it were not for the evil one who would blow his spirit that would descend into our lives...all the trouble that has come upon us would not have come upon us" - Agnon/ This way and that, and the curve would have been straight, 62)

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