Before you judge, wait one more second | Rabbi Eliyahu Maksumov #torah

There was a very cute story of a mother and a child who went grocery shopping and the mother bought a few apples. On the way out of the store the mother figured maybe her child is hungry so she asked her son if he would like something to eat and her son said yes mommy I'm hungry. So she quickly pulls out two apples and she hands it over to him and then she thinks to herself you know two apples is a lot for a little child. So she asked her son to give her back one apple and as soon as the child realized that his mother wants back one apple he quickly bit into both apples and the mother was shocked. She was beyond herself. I disciplined this child. I've done everything for him. What kind of mannerism is this? I asked him back for one apple, his own mother and he couldn't give me back one apple. He wanted both apples for himself. What kind of greedy child did I raise? And suddenly the little little child looks up at his mother and he says to her mommy I bit into both apples cuz I wanted to see which apple is the better tasting one and this one is the better tasting one. Here I want you to have the better tasting apple. And at that moment the mother realized that what she looked at a moment ago as a villain, as a terrible child was actually a angel, a child who wanted to do something good for his mother. You know many times in life we are so quick to judge. We think we have substantial evidence. We think we know the whole story from beginning to end but sometimes all it takes is just one moment. It just takes a few seconds just to stop and ask ourselves maybe we can look at the situation in a different light. Maybe we could give the benefit of the doubt. Maybe we could just judge the person favorably even if we are so confident that we have circumstantial evidence. All it takes is just a few moments and you could give the person a fair assessment and a fair judgment.