Before you JUDGE anyone WATCH THIS

anyway we're right outside the temple now here you know like is it not obvious that God kept us for millennia in exile brought us back in six days we had the six-day war and returned to our biblical borders and and got back the most important site the most holy site of central to our people and not only to our people but to the globe [Music] okay now the last one is judged favorably and for various reasons when you see someone doing something that you don't like figure you gotta just figure there's a good reason you can always figure there's a good reason judging favorably is is how I mean it's so often the case that let's say I go in the mikveh you know I'm a big mikvah guy and for those who don't know Hasidic Jews spend every day naked with all of their neighbors [Music] anyway the years ago there was this guy in our mikvah and you know Israel is a desert and we need our rain and we need the canary and and the Canaris the the how do you call that the CI CF type be the sea of the Galilee it's our drinking water but there would always be this like this big party guy and he would use the shower for like 40 minutes and he'd be like brushing his teeth in the shower there's a public shower you know you spend his ten shekels to get in and then spent like 50 shekels on water in there and he's just like brushing his teeth under there and and I would not enjoy my time there because and I actually I've taken less showers over the years because of him because I'm making up for the water that's missing from our you know our water source and and but maybe he was like a youngest son who never got enough of anything you know like stuff didn't quite trickle down in a poor big family big family not a lot of money very little trickle down coming down the youngest kid and he's finally got a chance to take a shower and he's just gonna like milk it for all he's got you know he's you can let every last drop of water come out of that canary and who knows what his story is know who knows what's going on with that guy and then I go in the water and there's some ball chumma and they're doing like I know what he's doing in there like water aerobics and so you know he's up and down and but now the whole water is going like really up and down and every time I try to come up from air for my ritual bath the wave goes over my heads so now I'm like drowning inside the mikveh and you know I just want to like give him like a sidekick and just pin him to the wall for a second just to get some air in this make fun but perhaps it's the case that perhaps it's the case that he's had a bad injury or something and the doctor said that this is the only way you're gonna rehabilitation heed to be have your bodyweight suspended while you get your strength back maybe that's what's going on in there maybe there's no way to know there's no way to know you know another guy in the mikveh and the changing room he locks he has a little block and he locks his flip-flops to the to the bench but you know once in a while you run into this guy's flip-flops and I don't want to touch this guy's flip-flops you know the rest of us bring our flip-flops like he's got to lock his flip-flops to the bench and but who knows maybe this guy had like some terrible foot fungus and and the doctor is like you know you gotta wear flip-flops seems like I got flip-flops but sometimes I forget him and the doctors like you can never forget it man you gotta wear flip-flops every time you so know maybe if I lock him to the bench so you never know what's going on with people you just never know and I'm sure every single one of us could tell story after story after story of where we thought something was the case when it wasn't you know and what was that famous story of the maybe went viral as a video I forget what it was but it was like someone was sitting in a cafe either drinking their coffee or eating their ice cream sorry someone else was eating their ice cream and they just couldn't believe someone was eating their ice cream and they were like getting so upset they finally like just couldn't believe it as ice in them and the person finally gets up moves their paper and and sees that underneath their paper was his own ice cream and really this person had been eating his own ice cream and the other guys ice cream was under this newspaper so so like this we all have crazy stories like this I leave my house on Chavez and I'm in my streaming and I wear one of these big fur round hats and you know and I'm like in the long robe and and I leave my house on Shabbos and I'm excited you know and it's Chavez and I'm saying good Chavez to everybody but I walk into my house and what do I see I see a tattooed body pierced chain-smoker who's some guy smoking cigarettes out on the street right outside my house now had I lived that guy's life if I had his brain his family structure his freaked-out upbringing his everything meaning if I lived that guy's life like the whole equation you know the entire equation of his life what would I be doing right now I be I be that guy smoking cigarette on Shabbos outside the house full of tensions and had he lived my whole life he'd be this rabbi coming out of his house on Shabbos so to judge somebody is as if you would have made a different choice you couldn't have made a different choice because if you were them that is the choice you made so everybody is all of us I mean who are you who sit in your chair right now if not the sum total of all the mathematics sibling order community who your father was your brain makeup your IQ your everything all of that is inside of you and that whole long equation of everything you've ever been through has an equal sign and on the other side of that equal sign is you on your chair right now and I know you would wish that people would accept you you wish people would judge you favorably and so anyone you might have judged anyone you might have judged is that person you're just seeing the other end of a long equation and therefore don't judge nobody and I'll tell you this is particularly hard I hate to admit this this is like know I always get too personal but I'm getting too personal now but I'm going there anyway the this is this is one of the painful things of living in Israel Jews who live tour in Israel especially the ones who aren't from here their home being in Israel is connect first of all you're in your ancestral land and aligning your life with the ancestral heritage of our tribe called the Jewish people and it just seems so darn obvious that that's the right way to go it just seems so obvious I mean the writing's on the wall I mean even as I teach this class like and literally I don't know if you can turn the camera a little bit if it would go so if you can focus it out the window but like we're Stanton we're right outside the Temple Mount here will it focus on over there oh you can't you don't know I don't play with that like never mind never mind so anyway we're right outside the Temple Mount here you know like is it not obvious that God kept us for millennia in exile brought us back in six days we had the six-day war and returned to our biblical borders and and got back the most important site the most holy site of central to our people and not only to our people but to the globe it's like so obvious so that's so judging favorably is when you see Jews in the land who don't do any of this stuff many Jews who are like they're trying to like surgically reinstall their foreskins you know they can't do enough Gentile lifestyle things like nothing's enough like they can't be more Gentile again they're they're trying so hard to be like the like to run as fast as they can and as hard as they can in the opposite direction of Judaism so you've got to somehow figure out how they have turned a blind eye to God's hand in our destiny that is culminated in this very day this day right now 2019 or whatever the Hebrew date is of this year fifty seven seventy-nine like you have to be like you have to not look around you have to be asleep completely or or willfully blind yourself it's called willful blindness and it's how do we judge that favorably how do we judge that favorably and they sometimes look at me hatefully and at least until I open my mouth and they realize they got the wrong guy but sometimes they look at me kind of hatefully like like I'm I'm somehow bringing up some guilt or I represent something that's that's like taking us back in time instead of forward something that that's embarrassing for them and no not you know in the high-tech world where Israelis are the cutting edge I'm some kind of embarrassment like they're trying to show in Israel that's like Silicon Valley and I'm showing it Israel that's ancient and it's a little embarrassing for them I don't know what it is exactly going on but you can shut that window so so how do we judge favorably and the answer is I guess I already said the answer the answer is is that because if I were them I'd be doing the same thing if I were watching those news stations if I was watching the commentaries of the secular media if I had if I had you know these black hat people trying to take their slice of the pie financially from my community I guess that's one way is if I were them I'd be doing the same thing