RAV KOOK ON Mikeitz Part 2: Joseph and the Evil Eye

PLEASE LEARN THIS L"N MY BOBIE ESTHER BAS Yichiel Dovid Rabbi Yochanan, the third century scholar, had an unusual custom. He would sometimes sit down outside the town mikveh (ritual bath). This way, he explained, the Jewish women will see me as they leave the bath and will have children as beautiful as me. Rabbi Yochanan's colleagues asked him: Are you not afraid of the Evil Eye?