Rabbi: Here to Love, Help, and Be Your Friend, Not Judge #shorts

I found myself, um, fairly often when people are willing, when you have the rapport and there is the trust and they do make the appointment and they're sitting there and and they're so nervous and they're struggling to even communicate. And when you can calm them down and say, "I'm not here to judge. I'm here to love. I'm here to help. I'm here to be your friend. I'm here to be your rabbi." I I often say, "There's probably nothing you can share or tell me that haven't been involved with." Although every time I've said that I've come to learn something new, which is also an important point. But I think to communicate that and transmit that as rabbis that certainly we have our values and our principles in our lives and our lifestyles and we're here to teach and promote and support Torah and Torah living and Torah standards and Torah expectations, but also the the humanity of Torah and the and the fallibility and the fact that we're real people. It's a real world. The Torah is not a utopian, uh, a utopian document and we're not here to judge. We're we're here to listen, to learn, to love and to try to help you however we can.