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Rabbi Moshe Haber Orchot Yashar: The Analytical Eye: Balancing Judgment and Belief 2.8.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  So soak less last couple of weeks we we focus, we utilize of
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  hiring Kennewski Cephey, which he gives a person his personal
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  advice and guide to living life. And we focus on one of his
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  points was the significance of being an honest person, which
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  meant talking truth and telling your children that they have to
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  speak the truth. And in fact, is molishing a
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  child if he doesn't speak the truth because that's one of the
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  most important things that person's used to.
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  And we explained that the theme is, in reality, why is speaking
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  the truth such a big deal? Maybe someone can lie, get ahead
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  a little bit. OK, I'm thinking about stealing
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  money through their lie. Just they like to create a
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  certain reputation or make themselves look a certain way
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  through their words. Our point was, was that it has a
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  very negative outcome in the long run.
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  And because their person gets used to lying, they're trying to
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  create a certain image for themselves through their lie.
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  And eventually they start to try living that image and that
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  creates problems. Whereas if you're genuine, you
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  are who you are and you don't really try to create for
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  yourself any imagination and the image and you live your life as
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  yourself. Which means I am, I am, I have
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  my flaws, I have my strengths, people like me, what I am, and
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  creates a much more healthy individual.
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  That was the story with truth. Now move to another one to skip
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  a couple and go to another chapter.
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  He brings up the significance of judging people favor.
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  So I'll give you a question before we analyze this concept a
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  little bit. I had this debate with an
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  individual a couple of days ago and that is, is it good or not
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  good to be a critical person? Now I'll play, I'll give you the
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  two sides of the coin. When you're a critical person,
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  on the one end, you have a little bit of a analytical eye
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  things. You look at everything and
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  you're not just buying into everything you see.
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  You're not accepting every word that you're told.
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  You're looking at things and you're judging them.
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  You're going back and forth, you're comparing, you're going
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  to based on what you've been told before and you're looking
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  at the whole picture. That's a critical person.
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  So is it a positive or a negative to be a critical
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  person? So on the one hand, you have
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  this, which is kind of a very certain sense of real person,
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  but a critical person also has opinion, many opinions.
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  And he has certain people that he doesn't hold so much about.
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  He has certain things that people tell him everyone's so
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  excited about. And he says because it was
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  critical eye, he says, I'm not really buying him.
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  I'm not so impressed, not not much moves needle by me.
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  So he has the fact that he's very analytical.
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  He also has the fact that he's a bit a bit judgmental.
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  And my question is, you have a choice of being this kind of
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  person or being a nice, sweet Tamim person that goes along
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  with the flow and someone tells us something impressive, he's
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  impressed. Someone tells something that's
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  nice, he says OK, He sees every person.
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  Everyone's the same to him. Which one is a better person?
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  Is it a good thing to be a critical person or is it not?
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  That was my question. I can hear the debate both ways.
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  I'll take your opinion, and then we'll go to look at this concept
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  in a second. What do you think?
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  Good thing, not good to be a critical person.
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  Finn Pettis. There's no extreme.
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  I understand the a Sheen, not extreme.
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  You think it's not going to be the worst?
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  Oh, not not not. What did it be extreme?
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  I understand in general people. Are extreme.
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  How often they've heard you They.
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  Said all day, you're critical back and forth with the Lord.
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  Something part of a Gemara head is to be extremely critical,
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  Yes. Any real guy, anything that he
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  sees, he doesn't really buy in as you really accept.
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  He sees behind the scenes. He's always telling himself.
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  But there's another story here. I happen to be that kind of
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  person personally. And remember, I see anything.
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  Anything I see, I'm always saying to myself.
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  I know how the world sees us. I know behind the scenes there's
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  some, you know, I'll give you an example.
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  What's that, Rabbi? If you you're communicating with
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  somebody else and you're critical about that, that's
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  where I was going with it, Yeah, Slot not.
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  That's what it leads to. That's part of the picture.
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  It's one of the same. So the other side of the coin is
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  judging favor. So let's play out the beauty of
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  judging favor and we'll get back to that point.
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  I definitely agree with both your points.
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  I do are negatives and positives, and you could easily
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  just say that being a critical person has more negatives than
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  positives and he better off being the other kind of person.
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  I'll show you both sides of the coin after we take a little bit
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  of an understanding of the topic of judging Favorite and Mishnah
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  says they have it down the claw down the cafs.
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  They used to judge every person favorably, which means you,
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  you're a judge in your mind and you're looking at people and
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  you're weighing what they're doing.
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  Tells you unfavorably, says Mishnah on the Galaxy as well
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  with with righteousness. You should judge.
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  You're frank, which means if you're looking at them and your
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  mind, you're judging them. Tilt toward the right, tilt
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  toward the fact they didn't do anything wrong in your mind.
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  Have it done in Traverga. And in fact, the rabbi says it's
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  actually a mitzvah. It's a mitzvah when you see
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  someone to judge in favourably, it's you're fulfilling A
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  mitzvah. You're getting a check on your
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  box upstairs by saying to yourself, so and so.
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  I see what he's doing doesn't look good.
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  He's probably doing the right thing.
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  I just don't know what's going on.
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  Let's judge me favor. And I mean, and the Gemini
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  Masaka Shabbat tells us one of the things that gives you a
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  great reward in this world and the next World.
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  One of the things on that list, a shortlist of 6 items.
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  One of the things on that list is a diamond Caviarola, Cavarola
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  Cavarola Cavs, the hoot. If you're willing to judge your
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  friend favorable, it's great for reward in this world and give it
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  for a word in the next word which tells you that Hashem
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  holds, Hashem believes. Don't be a judge mental person.
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  What's a judge mental person? He sees someone, especially if
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  he sees him doing something wrong.
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  For sure he's judge mental. If you see a person walking into
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  a non kosher restaurant, right? A guy who's your friend, a guy
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  who you know from the community, A judge mental person
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  immediately puts two and two together and says to himself, I
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  know so and so. I thought he was on defense.
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  I'm not sure which way he went. Clearly he's that way.
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  Judgmental. You see a person, I don't know
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  what other examples to come to mind, but there's so many
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  examples you could think of of the person yelling.
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  And again in judgmental, you don't know where he's yelling at
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  The Who, but he yelled, just not the person says I, I, I'm not
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  sure. I was never sure if he has an
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  angry side or not. Clearly he does give by it.
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  And you know, there's so many different examples.
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  You can judge people and the Mishnah and then the Gemara are
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  telling you that mitzvah to go the other way and to say, I
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  don't know really what's going on.
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  You can go further with judge. You could look at someone's
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  children. You could say, oh, I know where
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  they came from, the parents. You can go on and on with these
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  ideas and you could judge people constantly.
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  You can still look at someone's choice of work, someone who we
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  married. And you can always judge people
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  and be judgmental. And God, can you be critical
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  without being judgmental? Well, we have to get to that
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  point. That's the hope, but a simple
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  understanding is that that was that way.
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  Simple, I understand, but the simple understanding is that the
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  Mishnah they're all telling you choose seems choose to judge
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  favorably. In fact, it goes so far to say
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  that if you see a Sadiq, A righteous person, actually
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  commit a sin, not only do something that's great, he
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  committed a sin. It's written that you can assume
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  that by the morning he has cleansed himself from that sin
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  and he has already done complete the Shiva.
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  By the morning time, you can assume that he did the Shiva.
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  That's how far we're going with his perspective of looking at
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  people in the positive light. If it's a Sadiq who did
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  something wrong, I don't know what a regular person, but Sadiq
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  did something wrong. Your mind should go to the idea
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  and settle on the fact that he probably got rid of that mistake
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  by now. That's how far we go.
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  You haven't mitzvahed to judge people favorably, to go to the
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  right, to tilt the positive, and you have Even so far to say
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  there's someone actually dissing wrong.
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  It's not a debate anymore to go and say he probably, he's
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  definitely in my mind has cleansed himself in that sin.
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  If that's the case, everything from the Torah is pushing to the
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  idea of being non judgmental, not negative at all.
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  Right? I mean, first of all, our minds
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  and our conversations usually go the opposite.
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  We see someone do something and we paint the picture and I'm I
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  know, I know why he's doing this.
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  It's because of this. You create a conspiracy theory
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  in 5 minutes, right? That's the opposite side of the
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  coin. But this is telling you not to
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  be judgmental. And please, how do we?
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  Deal with the gamanal talking about should man have been
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  created and then suddenly end. Man is evil and shouldn't have
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  been created. I mean, discussing God's plan,
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  you're saying? Yeah.
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  I know, right? Giving them the benefit of the
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  doubt if right there they're saying you shouldn't.
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  Give me who to benefit that man. Or God you should man have been
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  created and then says no on the end was the end said no So you
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  you giving them the benefit of the doubt air where well you
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  tell him. Really they are.
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  I don't think you're talking about a specific person like
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  he's talking about the overall creation concept.
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  But but the specific person, individual by individual, action
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  by action, will tell you, it seems, judge people favorably.
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  So you may be talking about an overall theme or concept where
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  you can go the other way. But every person, friend, family
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  member, it's clear, according to the Kamala Mishnah Church
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  favorite, they give you the most classic case out there where
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  there's a story where a person who was not paid for three
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  years, his wages. I went to his boss and he said I
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  need to get paid. He was living with that boss for
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  three years. I need to get paid and go back
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  to my family. The boss said I have no money.
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  He then said, OK, give me from your livestock.
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  It came from your animals. The boss said I don't own any, I
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  don't have any. He said, OK, so give me from the
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  land, the yard. The boss said I don't have that
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  either and the worker just left. This isn't the amount of the
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  worker just picked up and left and went home with nothing.
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  After this he went home for the holiday.
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  After the holiday his boss shows up with everything with animals
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  and gifts and everything to pay him and the boss tells the
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  worker When I told you I didn't have each thing, what do you
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  believe? What do you think I had the more
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  fun of you than the boss had money.
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  The boss had the livestock on practice silver, and he had the
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  land. What do you believe?
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  And each one the workers said, I believed that the animals were
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  designated already to the bed to Mcdash and the land was already.
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  So it was maybe a lien or something was already assigned
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  for something else and the money was already put to somewhere
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  else. In other words, I believe that
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  even though everything was right in front of me, in front of my
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  eyes, maybe there's a bigger picture here and that's why he's
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  telling me, telling me. And the boss said every single
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  point that you're making is 100% spot on.
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  And even though it looked like I was very well off, I really had
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  nothing at the time. And that's why I couldn't pay
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  you. And the reason the story is told
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  is because from your eyes, when you look at something, are we
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  judge? What does it mean we're a judge?
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  We're a judge because we're using our eyes.
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  Our eyes see a certain scene. But here's the funny part.
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  You and I both know from our own personal lives, right?
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  My personal life, your personal life.
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  We all know that if you look at me from face value, you don't
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  know half the story. You don't know a tenth of the
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  story, right? Even me, even though we're so
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  close, you still don't know the 10th of the story.
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  Really of anything that goes on in my mind or anything that
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  bothers me or anything like that.
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  You can't know. And I don't know, I don't think
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  a tenth of the story of things that drive you and that you're
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  busy with. And that could be the politics,
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  whatever it may be. So that's because our eyes are
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  trying to be the judge, but our eyes cannot be literally the
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  other person if that's the case. And I know this by myself.
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  You're looking at me, then I should know this about you when
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  I'm looking at you. Hence I'm a very bad judge.
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  If I try to judge people, I'm a very bad judge because I'm doing
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  a court case, forming a court case without half the facts,
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  right? That's the problem with judging
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  people negatively, because you're looking at a person,
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  you're looking at his children, you're looking at a story, and
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  you're making a whole picture in your mind and you can't help but
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  do it. That's what we all do.
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  But you don't know anything. You have no idea what's really
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  going on, right? And that's part of the issue of
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  judging someone favorably. So back to my original question,
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  there's a mitzvah to judge people properly, favorably.
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  There's a mitzvah to always tilt in your mind and say he didn't
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  really do anything wrong, doesn't really know what he's
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  doing. There's something else going on,
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  whatever it may be, and go positive.
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  Should you be a critical person or should you not?
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  My real opinion is honestly speaking, my real opinion is two
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  parts. On the one hand, you should see
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  everybody that you know, everyone or part of us as part
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  of our team. On the part of our team, you're
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  rooting for them to succeed. You're rooting for them to
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  succeed. That means you try as much as
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  you can to hope and will that they're doing something positive
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  once you go down that road and you're not going to look to
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  negative as much. The reason people judge are the
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  people, those who are critical often times are the most sad
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  people. They're the most depressed
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  people and the most nothing going on in their life.
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  That's a very part of a critical person.
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  He's bitter in a sense and that creates and by the way, he's
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  very good at what he does. Often times those bitter people
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  who are cynical, they can pinpoint the story like nobody
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  else. No one can find those holes in
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  the other guy like this guy can, but he's also bitter.
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  What do you mean they haven't? I don't know if he has to be
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  bitter. I know a lot.
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  He has to be bitter. I'm telling you, General, what I
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  see, a lot of cynical people are very bitter and this makes them
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  like Zaki. This gives them happiness, the
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  downfall of the people around them.
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  It gives them something. Basically, the way we work, all
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  of us and our mind, our natural mind says I need to be on top
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  right now. I could either be on top because
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  I'm on top, or I could be on top by putting everyone else down in
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  my mind. These are some people work and
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  so bitter usually plays into nothing.
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  Everyone's that way. They got PTSD and the guy was
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  was burnt before he's critical. Burnt also in similar sense so
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  so now should just be that way. Good 100% doesn't have to be
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  bitter. But the big part of the picture,
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  and I've played this out, if it's coming from bitter, it's
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  coming from the fact that you do not consider the other person
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  part of your team and therefore you're judging him in a
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  negative. Like so that you can leave him
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  as the bad guy. Leave him as the problem so you
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  can feel great about yourself. That's the bad side of the coin.
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  That's the rule. I'm kind of judging.
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  And that person should not exist and that mind should not be part
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  of our mind. We do not want to be bitter.
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  We don't care if anyone else's downfall.
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  But at the end of the pasuk says the words been the whole, been
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  the full. You don't rejoice by the
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  downfall of the enemies. That's not the goal.
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  That's not the goal. At the same time, however,
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  equally as important, I believe it's to be somewhat, somewhat of
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  an analytical person and even the pretty critical person.
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  Why? Because the reality is so many
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  things that are happening in our lives are people trying to pull
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  the wool over our eyes constantly.
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  On a broader scope, in the world and the Jewish world, in the
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  community, everything has a little bit of people trying to
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  pull the wool over our eyes. And what that leads to is a very
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  dangerous zone as well. And that's called a petty.
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  What's a petty? A petty is the word for a fool.
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  It's a word we use for a fool. And the pasuk says petty.
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  Yamin Lehodavar. A fool believes in everything.
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  Even though we are people of faith, we are people who trust,
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  We are people who are loyal. We are people who believe how
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  our essence is believing, but at the same time believing in
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  everything. Being gullible is a very
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  dangerous Rd. A Jew has full pact with Emunah
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  belief and in Munana Shem and Munana the people believe in
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  other people, trusting other people, seeing positive in other
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  people, not judging them negatively.
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  But at the same time, if you go too far with the belief
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  perspective, then you believe everybody is good.
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  And that's very in my mind, equally as dangerous sky.
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  I'll tell you what I mean in a second.
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  So but it's. I think it's two different
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  things. Critical is always negative.
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  We critical is negative. I think criticals analytical is
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  not negative that you're looking at me analyzing something.
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  But when you say critical, critical is nothing is.
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  It has no you counted I think. It I think critical is negative.
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  So now that goes hand in hand. Think so, but let me say maybe I
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  the word shouldn't be critical if I'm.
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  Critical I'm one of your if I'm critical of because I want the
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  law as he teaching it to be the right way, not that I'm.
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  Against No. Negative.
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  But it's it's still breaking it down if his point is.
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  No, I'm not negative on that. No, but his point is, is that
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  Mars is divided in the layers. Mars's point is that critical is
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  definitely breaking down the first level.
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  Even if you don't be critical to because you want to get right,
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  it's still breaking down. The better word for the my
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  perspective I'm trying to put out there, which I really
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  believe very much, and this idea is to be analytical.
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  A better word is to be maybe it sometimes crosses over the
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  critical to a degree, but it's to be someone, yes, even to a
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  certain degree, is judging the picture a bit, but not judging
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  negatively per SE, but looking at things and looking beyond
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  what you're seeing in front of your face.
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  Because that simple idea of accepting everything leads to
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  gullible. I'll give you an extreme concept
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  in our history that may play into that.
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  I just asked. Yeah, he's right.
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  Oh, he is. OK, to the more negative.
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  OK, say I if you want to go. State.
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  Corrective. OK, good.
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  The perspective however you you choose your word, the
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  perspective is clear that a person has to be someone who
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  looks past. That's the basis doesn't just
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  take everything in why or just accept everything because that
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  leads to gullible. We have in our history a long
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  time ago. It's a big part of Jewish
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  history and made our people very jaded for many years.
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  A classic example of what we call a shop tied speak.
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  Shop tied speak as a person who over time claim to be Mashiach.
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  Now, there were a lot of things going on in history at the time,
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  The way I was told around the Jewish history elementary
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  school, a lot of things going on in Jewish history that was said
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  that fed into the belief that people wanted Mashiach.
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  Even today, when people talk about Mashiach, a lot of times
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  they talk about that because they just came from dealing with
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  something said. So they go right into the
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  Mashiach outcome, but not the greatest way to think about
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  Mashiach. He's not just your savior, He's
• 18:53
  rather a beautiful way of life. It's not just your Saber.
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  It's more about Hashem. But at that time people were
• 19:00
  saved and this guy came along. It was a rough time post
• 19:04
  different things happening in Europe, and this guy came along
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  and he claimed he was Mashiach and he did some good tricks and
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  he was a very savvy person, very charming person.
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  How many years ago? I don't know, three, 4500, oh,
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  maybe 500 years ago. Thank you.
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  He was a savvy. Person manic depression.
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  I'm sure he was. You just give all crazy and he
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  really he wooed the whole many Jewish people, even some Gizolin
• 19:29
  we're on board. At least they did not shoot him
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  down that much. They didn't do They didn't shoot
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  him down. Some did, some did not until how
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  the story end up. He had people following.
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  He had followers, yet they thought he was my Shia.
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  Imagine what do you? Mean they sold their houses in
• 19:43
  Syria. That's it.
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  They only did they that that's the way to hingle by the because
• 19:47
  of him right when he came to Syria, that was a song they
• 19:50
  sang. Right.
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  They thought they were going to the Sion and then the outcome
• 19:54
  was the Muslims got a hold of them.
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  The Sultan got a hold of him, and they forced him to convert
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  and he converted to Islam and that's the end of him.
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  That was another story ending. So here you have a guy who was
• 20:09
  our savior from many religious people and he ended up being a
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  total fraud of 0 and someone who probably is not, definitely not
• 20:18
  alone about today. That's how far I went Mashiach.
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  To know ABBA and the whole people are following him like
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  he's Mashiach, a lot of people at least that made the Jewish
• 20:29
  people forever jaded forever. We are people who became
• 20:34
  somewhat critical based on that story and somewhat even cynical.
• 20:39
  And the truth is you need to have a little bit of that in
• 20:42
  your life because if your daughter's getting married and
• 20:46
  someone says beautiful family, wonderful people, amazing people
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  and you don't have this type of eye, you will just buy in and
• 20:53
  that's that. And then they get married and
• 20:55
  then you find out. Now you someone finds out these
• 20:58
  people are really a problem and really difficult people.
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  They have real issues. And you say to yourself, how
• 21:03
  come I didn't know this? You never asked the soul because
• 21:06
  you just bought in and you have a movement of a Sigoula.
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  Someone tells you, you got to do 40 days and 40 nights of don't
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  eat, no eating cheese. And if you do that don't is
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  going to get married, you're going to make $1,000,000 right.
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  And people who are the gullible type, they do it.
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  They do it and I keep hearing about different suitable.
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  They hate them all the time. Try to eat this at that hour and
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  do this and pray this and it's all nonsense.
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  It's all nothing. It's all hot air.
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  It's some guy with the credit card machine making money.
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  The whole thing is hot air. A lot of these things are
• 21:39
  complete sketch, complete 0. But someone's pulling you like
• 21:43
  why? Because we're gullible.
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  So if we allow ourselves to be that type, now we're running a
• 21:49
  major risk and we are very judge mental.
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  On the other hand, we're also destroying the fabric of
• 21:56
  trusting people have appreciated people of liking what you're
• 22:00
  seeing. Where is the real answer?
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  The real answer is obviously it's the middle of the row.
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  That's a clear answer, even though we're being told not to
• 22:07
  judge negatively, to judge favorably.
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  When you're judging, judge favorably.
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  So don't judge anybody, but at the same time, at least in
• 22:15
  negative light, by the same time, extremely, extremely
• 22:19
  analytical lie. Because if we allow ourselves to
• 22:22
  be gullible, literally, they could pull the Willow of our
• 22:25
  eyes and pull any sketch on us. In religion, any sketch can be
• 22:29
  pulled. And so people ask the question,
• 22:32
  if this is true, should be so then what's what's the right
• 22:35
  faith? The essence of faith is trusting
• 22:39
  is believing is going with it, right?
• 22:41
  That's what faith is. You believe in Hashem, you trust
• 22:44
  Hashem, you go with what you're told about Hashem.
• 22:48
  How's that playing? And the answer really is 2
• 22:51
  things when it comes to M. We're now we have a concept that
• 22:54
  just, it just comes over us, that just becomes our way and
• 22:58
  we're now push it out. Simple fate.
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  And the truth is over time you've built your trust in
• 23:03
  Hashem. You've seen enough, you've
• 23:06
  learned enough, you've realized enough to realize that there's
• 23:09
  something there to trust Hashem a lot more than something there.
• 23:13
  That's how your faith is partially built now that you
• 23:16
  have to analyse every detail of God's world and compare and
• 23:19
  contrast and figure out how Hashem exists.
• 23:20
  You don't need to do that. But there is a part of you that
• 23:23
  has done somewhat of that already and you've built your
• 23:25
  faith in Hashem. You weren't gullible there.
• 23:27
  You accepted based on your eyes and your mind.
• 23:31
  But being gullible, however, is very destructive.
• 23:33
  Whether it be gullible in religion, gullible if people
• 23:36
  tell you gullible about other families, all these things are
• 23:39
  very destructive. They can have, I think, much
• 23:42
  harm. I know many simple people.
• 23:45
  I'll tell you, my humble opinion is that a lot of the destructive
• 23:49
  movements are built by very nice people, very nice sweet sheep.
• 23:57
  Follow those leaders or follow those movements.
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  They buy in, they get excited. I mean, for, you know, and the
• 24:04
  sheep is some guy who is a conniving person who's pulling
• 24:07
  all the stricks in the book. That's that's the leader, that's
• 24:10
  the hay, that's the puller, but the people behind are nice, good
• 24:13
  Tamim people. You see this concept all the
• 24:15
  time. Do you follow on the thing or
• 24:17
  not? And these people are good
• 24:19
  people. They're putting their money
• 24:21
  behind they're putting their time behind their energy behind
• 24:22
  it and they would not hurt a family.
• 24:25
  Whereas their leader, the person that they're following is
• 24:29
  literally the bull in a China shop.
• 24:32
  How does that happen? Because he's a sketch and they
• 24:36
  don't know about sketches and they haven't been, you know,
• 24:38
  they didn't work on the stores, they don't know about sketches
• 24:40
  and they think everyone is genuine.
• 24:42
  And that creates a major problem.
• 24:44
  The better way to be is to be a person who has an extremely
• 24:48
  analytical eye, maybe won't cross over to critical,
• 24:51
  definitely not cynical, because cynical is the structure.
• 24:54
  But to have an analytical eye is extremely, very powerful to be
• 24:59
  someone who looks past the base. I mean, you watch the news, you
• 25:03
  know, by now, I know by now everything we're being told, a
• 25:07
  lot of things are being told. There's a biggest story there.
• 25:09
  I mean, when you watch anything that goes on in World News, in
• 25:14
  Israeli politics, in American politics, all these things, you
• 25:16
  know, and I know there's a biggest story to be told, right?
• 25:20
  This is how I feel. That's how I see things.
• 25:22
  So if you go too far with this, it makes the whole world crazy
• 25:25
  in your mind. That's a little far, but you
• 25:27
  should have an extremely analytical eye, even bordering
• 25:32
  on critical. You should holler because with
• 25:35
  that you have a healthier perspective on life.
• 25:37
  Someone came to me last week and he came to giving charity and he
• 25:42
  found out something about giving charity that he gives to certain
• 25:46
  institutions. The guy who collects takes a
• 25:49
  crazy percentage, OK, a crazy percentage to collect.
• 25:55
  And it came to me and I'm going to say the number was on like it
• 25:58
  was like 80%. No, he takes 30%.
• 26:01
  And he was. I was so disappointed.
• 26:05
  By the way. The truth is, according to CERN
• 26:07
  halachot, there's a way to get around.
• 26:09
  This is why you have to be careful with things.
• 26:10
  There's a way to get around by by collecting.
• 26:13
  And he gets a drop less than 50% and it's possible.
• 26:16
  According to halach, he has a right to keep.
• 26:19
  Now that is not done by January people, but it is done by
• 26:23
  crooks. So this guy was extremely
• 26:25
  bothered. How'd he catch on to this?
• 26:27
  He caught on because someone was on an e-mail thread and they had
• 26:31
  the wrong person with the same name of the e-mail thread and
• 26:34
  those they emailed one person, someone else was on that e-mail
• 26:38
  thread and picked up on the story and he read that.
• 26:41
  Someone said, I'll give you just an example, it's worse than
• 26:44
  this. Someone said donated $200,000.
• 26:48
  I just got a donation of $200,000.
• 26:50
  That's the same number. Please send over my Commission
• 26:53
  of $60,000. Let's just say that was a
• 26:55
  number. It was worse than that, OK?
• 26:58
  And the person who told to me who's friends with this
• 27:01
  individual was extremely bothered.
• 27:04
  He's a donor himself. He's a lot of money himself.
• 27:07
  And he was totally blown off his chair.
• 27:08
  He couldn't handle it. I told him, listen, I never
• 27:12
  heard a story in my life. Honestly, I think it's the most
• 27:15
  extreme example I've ever heard. But at the same time, you should
• 27:20
  not be so surprised. And whenever you give our money,
• 27:24
  whenever you involve yourself in these things, you have to deal
• 27:27
  directly let the people themselves, they need to know
• 27:30
  them, especially if it's large amounts, you need to know them.
• 27:33
  You need to trust them. You know what he used to do.
• 27:35
  You need to check the way they live.
• 27:37
  And if the guy was frying on the, you know, first class or if
• 27:40
  he's living in some crazy home, maybe you should think twice of
• 27:43
  what you give that kind of money.
• 27:44
  Follow them. Follow the whole picture.
• 27:47
  And I even think because he told me it's an institution related
• 27:49
  to the community or something I said, is it?
• 27:51
  I don't, I don't know. I don't know which one it was,
• 27:53
  but I said look at certain ones. Look how the people live.
• 27:56
  If they live, the people involved live in a very simple
• 27:58
  way and you know what, then they're probably not doing these
• 28:02
  types of things. But if the people involved about
• 28:04
  living in a very luxurious way, then you have to be think twice.
• 28:08
  This is my personal opinion. Why?
• 28:09
  Because you have to have very clear analytical eye at the
• 28:14
  world around you. It's true with giving over your
• 28:17
  daughter to marry a certain guy. You didn't do so it's true.
• 28:20
  And you invested someone. You do.
• 28:21
  So how many people do you know have invested in people and then
• 28:25
  got sketched right? We all know this is part of the
• 28:27
  world. And every time I go back to say,
• 28:29
  oh, there were red flags, I should have known better.
• 28:31
  Of course you shouldn't know better.
• 28:33
  You should do research. Now at the same time, has Shem,
• 28:36
  runs the show, has Shem. I know a family who's very, they
• 28:40
  pretend to have opinions about everybody and everything.
• 28:43
  And their daughter married a guy that was nuts, literally crazy.
• 28:49
  And after a little while they said, how'd this happen?
• 28:51
  Like we, we, we know everything about every family.
• 28:53
  We, we analyze everybody how this happened.
• 28:55
  And the answer they accepted was I shouldn't build the world over
• 28:58
  their eyes. So as analytical as you can be,
• 29:01
  you can also make mistakes. Doesn't make you a better
• 29:04
  person, but it does make you at least have a more genuine
• 29:08
  outlook to the world. So at the same time, don't be
• 29:11
  negative, don't think everyone's a crook, don't be a conspiracy
• 29:14
  theorist and say everyone's pulling sketches left and right.
• 29:16
  It's going to drive you crazy. Don't be too cynical and even
• 29:21
  too critical. But according to this concept I
• 29:24
  mean what happens? If everybody finds out that he's
• 29:27
  a crook man, yeah. What happens?
• 29:30
  When everyone finds out who's a crook.
• 29:31
  They find out he's a crook. But they don't do anything.
• 29:34
  No one does anything. Yeah, tell you proudly.
• 29:36
  As a matter well, I'll tell you I got to the state.
• 29:38
  Why? Because that season 2, that
• 29:41
  feeds into this way of life, which means the fact that, and
• 29:45
  this is part of the problem, the truth is this, the fact that we
• 29:48
  have so many sweet, beautiful people that just, I'm being a
• 29:51
  little bit sarcastic there. They just go along with all the
• 29:54
  flows and just buy into everything.
• 29:56
  They build these images about certain people and they allow
• 29:59
  certain people to carry themselves in a way that makes
• 30:04
  them, you know, seem like regular people.
• 30:06
  And that creates the ability because if we were real with
• 30:09
  everyone, if we were fully real, these things would not happen.
• 30:12
  Which is if we really had the score the right way about
• 30:16
  certain families, certain people in business, certain croaks,
• 30:18
  certain sketches, these things, then people would be more aware
• 30:22
  and they wouldn't make the same mistakes when it comes to who
• 30:24
  they're doing, the Maori's, who they invest in, who they go into
• 30:27
  business with, if they had the real.
• 30:32
  Don't worry. So you have to figure.
• 30:33
  Out a way if I should not is dangerous, but at the same time
• 30:36
  before you invest you need to ask people and they need to tell
• 30:39
  you the truth. We have a pasuk you know let us
• 30:43
  say hi Lee bye. When your friend's blood is
• 30:45
  being spilled if you see a girl marrying a guy who's a a crazy
• 30:49
  addict and he's a problem right you have to you have to go ahead
• 30:52
  and tell you to pick up your phone and call up and tell these
• 30:55
  are part of the world that we live in.
• 30:57
  So there's a very interesting line that, like you said, we're
• 31:00
  thinking about people, certain people just talking about you.
• 31:03
  So certain people, you have to erase that.
• 31:05
  Certain people sit and learn, right?
• 31:08
  So nobody. Knows like he is.
• 31:10
  Certain people sit and learn, have this perspective that they
• 31:16
  figure out a way. I'm telling you, I know from the
• 31:18
  from the Gemara world, one of the greatest tools to figure out
• 31:21
  how to get the right middle of the road with this are people
• 31:24
  who learn, who study, who think, because when you think a lot,
• 31:29
  you see these pictures. I see every a in every Jewish
• 31:31
  newspaper. I know the behind the scenes.
• 31:33
  I can tell so and so got honored because he has a brother with
• 31:36
  money. So and so got this because
• 31:38
  they're pulling this sketch and making you look at a building,
• 31:40
  but the building's not really built.
• 31:42
  All these things I can see in three seconds.
• 31:43
  Are you negative? I'm a little bit there.
• 31:45
  I'm a little bit on the fence. Yeah, you might be a little too
• 31:49
  jaded for all these things. Especially when you grow up in a
• 31:52
  rabbi family, you kind of know the behind the scenes.
• 31:54
  Yeah, I'm a little jaded, yes. Maybe too much, but it does help
• 31:59
  me at least have a perspective and have an opinion.
• 32:02
  Have an opinion. I don't think every community
• 32:04
  member needs to be as jaded as a rabbi.
• 32:07
  Honestly, I think a rabbi needs to have a little bit more of a
• 32:09
  critical perspective 'cause if someone comes in with a story,
• 32:13
  he needs to know the real story behind the scenes.
• 32:15
  On the other hand, if everyone was fully, fully clear on
• 32:18
  everything, nothing would go forward.
• 32:20
  You know, No one would take a dollar in certain institutions.
• 32:22
  No one would invest. No one would marry their kids,
• 32:25
  all because they would find out about one floor.
• 32:27
  It's too much. If you go too far, you'll have
• 32:29
  to figure out the the balance down the middle.
• 32:32
  But you do need to have at the same time a perspective which
• 32:36
  says I'm on the same team with everyone else.
• 32:39
  I want everyone else to succeed. I want to root for that failure.
• 32:43
  But I'm not going to buy in to all the sketch.
• 32:47
  I'm not just going to take it and go with it because then I'm
• 32:50
  a petty. I'm, I mean, I'm a believer, but
• 32:53
  I'm not a fool, right? I'm a person who goes with
• 32:56
  things, who accepts, who likes other people, who wants others
• 32:59
  to succeed. I'm not looking for their flaws.
• 33:02
  But I'm not going to be made for a fool and just take everything
• 33:06
  and just take it at face value. Because if I do, there's a great
• 33:09
  risk for the sake of the Jewish people, for the sake of our
• 33:13
  community, for the sake of my family, for myself.
• 33:16
  There's a great risk if I just buy in everything I'm being
• 33:20
  told. I'll stop with this.