הַחוֹשֵׁד בַּכְּשֵׁרִים לוֹקֶה בְּגוּפוֹ
מִי שֶׁחוֹשֵׁד חֲשָׁדוֹת סְרָק בְּאָדָם כָּשֵׁר נֶעֱנַשׁ עַל כָּךְ בְּגוּפוֹ. אַזְהָרָה מִפְּנֵי חֲשָׁדוֹת שָׁוְא בַּאֲנָשִׁים נְקִיִּים שֶׁלֹּא עָשׂוּ כָּל רַע.
("כָּל הַחוֹשֵׁד בִּכְשֵׁרִים לוֹקֶה בְּגוּפוֹ"- יוֹמָא יט ע"ב, וְכֵן:"צָרִיךְ לְפָרֵשׁ אוֹתוֹ כְּטוֹב, הוֹאִיל וְיֵשׁ צַד אֶפְשָׁרוּת לִהְיוֹתוֹ טוֹב, וְאֵין מֻתָּר לַחֲשָׁדוֹ, וְעַל זֶה יֹאמְרוּ:כָּל הַחוֹשֵׁד כְּשֵׁרִים לוֹקֶה בְּגוּפוֹ"- הָרַמְבָּ"ם/ פֵּרוּשׁ לְמַסֶּכֶת אָבוֹת, פֶּרֶק רִאשׁוֹן,348, וְכֵן:"וְאָמְנָם,כְּמוֹ שֶׁיֵּשׁ אִסּוּר לְאָדָם לִהְיוֹת חוֹשֵׁד בִּכְשֵׁרִים, כֵּן יֵשׁ אִסּוּר לְהָבִיא עַצְמוֹ לִידֵי חַשְׁדָא,כִּי עוֹבֵר עַל "וְלִפְנֵי עִוֵּר לֹא תִתֵּן מִכְשֹׁל"- פֶּלֶא יוֹעֵץ/ אוֹת ח'- חַשְׁדָא, וְכֵן:"אַל יַחֲשֹׁד בִּכְשֵׁרִים,שֶׁהֲרֵי לִכְבוֹדוֹ, כְּבוֹד רֹאשׁ הַדֶּגֶל, הֵסִיר כִּפָּתוֹ מֵרֹאשׁוֹ"- חַיִּים בְּאֵר/ נוֹצוֹת, 106)
תרגום
ביטוי (אנגלית)
He who entertain suspicion of worthy men will be smitten with bodily disease
הגדרה (אנגלית)
Whoever harbors malicious suspicions about a kosher person will be punished for it in his own body. A warning against malicious suspicions about clean people who have done no evil.
("Everyone who is jealous of money is afflicted with disease in his body" - Yom 19:2, and so on: "It is necessary to interpret it as good, but woe to the ram, and there is a possibility of its being good, and there is no permission for its envy, and therefore they will say: Everyone who is jealous of money is afflicted with disease in his body" - Harambam/ Interpretation of the Mask of the Fathers, Chapter 1, 348, and so on: "And indeed, just as there is a prohibition for a person To be jealous of wealth, as there is a prohibition against bringing oneself into the hands of Hasdah, because it transgresses "And before the blind you shall not give a slander" - Pela Yoetz/ Ot H - Hasdah, and thus: "Let him not be jealous of wealth, for the sake of his honor, the honor of the head of the flag, he has removed his cap from his head" - Life in the Light/ Feathers, 106)