The Way We View - R. Shlomo Landau - TorahAnytime.com

Imagine for a moment you're walking on Chavis down the main street in your town and there's a bus, there's buses, city buses, and people take the city buses. It's safe. We're going to pretend this story took back took place 40 years ago when it was actually safe to go on city buses. And you pass by a bus stop and sitting in this bus stop are three boys from your community. Unfortunately, they're what we call off the they're no longer keeping properly. They don't have yamakas. It's an shabas. They don't look very shabistic and they're sitting in the bus and you're across the street and all of a sudden a bus pulls up. You don't see what happens because the bus is blocking your view and a minute later the bus leaves and those three boys are no longer in the bus stop. So usually we jump to a conclusion they went on a bus on chabas. Okay, you know whatever at least they didn't drive themselves. Um but how do you look at that situation and judge it favorably? How what happened at Neesh? They were taking one of the guys to the hospital because it was emergency situation. They were sitting there and chilling. Now I want to switch one variable in the story. Imagine for a moment that you're walking down the main street in your town and ch this morning and in the bus stop is sitting the holy can't believe it. He's sitting there. He must have been out his way to he just needed to take a a break and all of a sudden a bus pulls up and you don't see it anymore because a bus blocks your vision. Then the bus goes away when are you going to imagine that the got on the bus? I don't know what you're going to do, but you're going to figure out a way to somehow use your imagination to be really creative where the went. I don't know. Maybe a bunch of them picked him up to give him a kiss and put him back down and that's when the I don't know, maybe there was a manhole and he fell in the manhole. Maybe there was a an awning behind you and he stepped into there for a minute. The one thing you're not going to suspect of doing is getting on that bus. You have to judge other people like that's what it means on some level. If we viewed every person the way we view the then we would never come up with something negative about them. But unfortunately we do and because we do lots of harm ensues from