The Blind Man At The Cafe

I once went [music] to a blind museum in Israel. So, it's a tour but from a blind man through a blind street? I don't know what it is cuz I couldn't see it. They Everything is dark. [music] You can't see it. You're They they sort of mimic what it mean what it feels like to be a blind person. And they set up different rooms [music] where you can go and experience what it means to be blind. So, I'm going through all the different rooms. There's a bakery, and there's a grocery store, and there's a library, and a post office, and then the end is a cafe where all the people in the tour sit down, and the tour guide who's blind, he serves you drinks, whatever you ask, he gets it right, which is amazing cuz you want Coke, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, no problem. He brings you each one even though he's blind. And we were able to ask him questions, whatever we wanted. So, there were people who asked him, you know, dumb questions [music] like, "You ever put salt in your coffee by mistake?" Or, "You ever walk into the wrong house?" Cuz this was a man who he led his life by himself as a blind man. He was independent. I asked him a question. I said, "Is there [music] anything about being blind that you're grateful for?" He said, "You know, that's a good question. There is. And that is that when I meet somebody, I could care less what they look like because I can't see them. So, I immediately care about how kind they are, about how deep they are, about if they're compassionate. It's the only thing I care about." And he told me, "Once you get past [music] how fat, how skinny, how rich, how good-looking, how with-it, how stylish, how not stylish somebody is, you realize people are fascinating. They're amazing. They're full of depth. They're souls." That is the "Ahavat Yisrael K'mochah." No one is forcing you to love every single person in Klal [music] Yisrael. It's a mitzvah to look at yourself a little bit more like a soul. And once you do, you realize everyone's souls. >> [music]