Musar for Berakhot 111:3
אמרי ליה אקרינן (דברים כח, מא) בנים ובנות תוליד וגו' לרבא אמר ליה כבישותיה לאביי א"ל בנך ובנתך נפישי ומינסבן בנתך לעלמא ומדמיין באפך כדקא אזלן בשביה
They said to him : We were made to read in our dream the words "Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine, for they shall go into captivity" (ibid. 5:41). To Raba he replied in an unfavourable sense. To Abbai he said : Thy sons and daughters will be many, and thy daughters will marry [husbands in distant parts of] the world, so that they will seem to thee as though they had gone into captivity,
Shenei Luchot HaBerit
לא תקלל חרש . One must not curse any Jew, not even someone who cannot hear the curse (19,14). The reason is that we know that the power of the curse or blessing is not confined to it being actually pronounced i.e. capable of being heard.
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