Le Deutéronome 17:7 Cabale : Sha'arei Kedusha

Our sages, of blessed memory, stated,⁵⁰³Mishnah Avot 4:21 “Envy, lust, and [the desire for] honor, remove a person from the world.” Similarly, our sages, of blessed memory, stated,⁵⁰⁴Talmud Bavli, Yoma 86b; Pesachim 87b; Avot d’Rabbi Natan Ch. 39 “Authority shortens the life of those who possess it and buries them.” This is because it causes one’s heart to be haughty with his Maker, as the verse states,⁵⁰⁵Deuteronomy 17:20 “So that his heart should not become exalted above his brethren and so that he will not depart from the commandment, neither to the right nor to the left, so that his years will be prolonged over his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.”