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The Altruistic Personality - R. Yoel Gold - TorahAnytime.com

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I was reading a book. It's called The Altruistic Personality by a doctor, a Holocaust survivor. Since he's a Holocaust survivor, actually, he was saved by non-Jews during the war. His name is Dr. Samuel Olner. And he became a therapist. And he dedicated his life doing research trying to understand why some non-Jews risk their own lives to save Jews. >> And he interviewed over 700 of these during the war that risked their lives. And he found the common denominator between all of these people that what value did their parents instill in them that led them to risk their lives years later to save a Jew? They all said that when we were younger, when we made a mistake, our parents never shamed us. They tried to help us correct course without shaming us, have us take responsibility without shame. And that's what gave us the courage, right, to always do what's right because they always trained us to do what's right without shame. They didn't shame us. They didn't put us down.