ZeesKite — If one is truly happy for their friend’s good luck, success, happiness, then they would not have the jealousy problem. The question is how do you get to the point of not being jealous? Many of the sifrei mussar explain jealousy as coming from a lack of emunah, rather than as you imply a lack of Ahavas Yisroel. In other words, if we could somehow truly internalized the concept that Hashem runs the world, and that what someone else has in no way “takes away” from what we have, and that Hashem is absolutely just and exacting in his cheshbonos even if to us it doesn’t seem “fair”, there would be no more jealousy.
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