Beware of covetousness!
Rabbi Schneider was talking about covetousness on his show the other day, Discovering the Jewish Jesus. He described many examples, I saw and remember a lot of that from my job before retiring. So many jealous, envious, and insecure and they try to take yours and your success as theirs. I had it happen several times over the years. People took my work and did a book chapter on it, but never gave me my credit, we were supposed to do an article and I shared in good faith with this person, but they never produced, just took my work, and pass it on as their own, all for a book chapter, which had all my research mostly from my dissertation. Ironically, this same person resigned shortly after as she was plagued with migraines and illness and could not work anymore, I never knew about what they did until a few years after the fact. This happened a lot in my position in higher education at the university. Another lady took my work and put her name first, but I did all the work, she...
