The experiment that explains exactly why it’s so hard for you to make a change

Three lines are drawn on a board, one of them clearly longer than the others. Which line's the longest? It's a simple question that even a five-year-old could answer correctly, but then seven people sitting in the room answer one after the other with the wrong answer with absolute confidence. In this situation, what would you answer? In 1951, psychologist Solomon Asch created exactly this moment. All seven were actors and only one person in the room didn't know about it. Faced with an entire group that thought differently, nearly three-quarters of them gave up at some point on what they saw with their own eyes and agreed with the majority. They simply couldn't bear the thought of being the only ones going against the grain. Now, take this experiment out of the lab because we all know this, a lifestyle we no longer truly believe in, things we do just because that's how it's done, and Judaism begins exactly at this moment. The first Jew was called Abraham the Hebrew, and why? Our sages explain, the whole world is on one side and he is on the other side. So, which side do you choose to be on? The herds or the one who is on the other side?