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Tisha B'Av: Please, Respect Me! - Rabbi David Kaplan
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was of of uh Z
State 9-year-old
boy came to the
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B came to ask him and
shilot the night before
a burglar broke into a
home
and starts looking around opens up a
drawer and he finds a stash of
cash
so takes the
money as he starts heading out of the
house he hears
crying she turns back sees there's a
child in the bed is crying 9-year-old
child
so the thief bends down he says then why
are you
crying says well my mother's in ALA it's
a
widow and my sister's getting married in
3 weeks my mother's been saving Penny by
Penny Nickel by nickel and now you're
about to take the
money so the thief Jewish heart his
heart
melts says get okay don't cry don't cry
don't cry I won't take the money puts
the money back so here I'm putting the
money back back I won't take the
money turns around to leave turns back
he says you know what here takes more
money out of his pocket he says I also
want to give
TOA your sister I want also be part of
the
mitzah so the kid comes the next day
documented St kid comes the next day ask
sh what's a
Shila is to take money from a thief you
know you're not allowed to take
money ask so they
and there's a Kola you give be make La
dka that La dka that the money came from
the thie that the thief stole it you
know some of the money he might actually
have earned
honestly so he said okay keep the money
that was a Shila that was
asked I want to ask you a
question when a story like that begins
you first hear the thief broke in took
money what are you thinking of thief
robber can worst I've ever person could
commit just about then you find out at
the end of the story you know what guy
wasn't so bad guy is actually you know
guy wasn't so bad There's Hope guy
actually contributes he didn't take it
he has to contribute the Mitzvah so how
so we understand you know what there's a
different perspective same individual
different
perspective so the truth is that that's
only because we heard what the end of
the story is what happened at the outset
when you took a look there's a Jew you
took a look at him you had a certain
view of that Jew who broke it so let's
see what the guar says about how we view
people and type of look type of the type
of view in perspective that we have on
people B anybody wants to look it up
later the gor
says that Reby Taron saw RAV
Yehuda and what he
sawar said to him he asked rud why is
your face
glowing sou auda's face was glowing said
to abuda why is your face
glowing said to
him face is yellow it's got a glow to it
so you have said to them well yesterday
we had gone out to the field and we
brought in some tadin and we ate tadin
tadin are a type of vegetable perhaps
it's turnips or spinach whatever it was
said we went out to the fields and we
ate
turnips and that's why my face is
glowing then the gor says a maton saw
him a Roman Noble woman Roman Noble
woman saw rud and she said to
R you're
a and you're drunk because you saw his
face glowing
she said how could that be that a Jewish
rabbi who you're drunk I mean you're a
POS how can you be drunk face is glowing
so he must have been drinking tributa
said to her believe me I don't drink I
only have one cup for Kish one cup fora
four cups at the Seder and then I have
to wrap a tourniquet around my head
until Shu because I have such a pounding
headache from the four cups on PES so
believe me I haven't been
drinking so she said so then why why is
it that your your face is glowing says
the a person wisdom causes his face to
Glow person's Torah wisdom causes his
face to Glow different opinions whether
of Yuda actually said that to her or
whether if Yehuda did not say that he
just made these he just said no I don't
drink wine and in his humility he didn't
want to
say it's the gor saying it the gar says
that's the real reason okay one one more
customer it's saduki saw him saduki a
reformer denier of the authenticity of
Torah
CRA and he said to him your face looks
like you either lend with interest or
you raise K you raise
Hogs both of them were very very easy
Paras both bring a lot of money a person
who has a lot of money has a certain
glow to him somebody wealthy has he's
got that rich look and rooda had a glow
somebody who wins the lottery is glowing
very few people are depressed when they
win the lottery they become depressed
afterwards when they find all the
friends that they never knew they had
but when they win it they don't have
they're not depressed said to Ruda your
face is glowing you look like either
lend with Ribbit or you raise Hogs Ruda
said by us both are user not allowed to
lend with ribus you're not allowed to
raise K but I have 2 four basak 24
bathrooms from my house to the Bas Mish
and I check myself in each basak that's
why my face is glowing meaning obviously
some worship say that he obviously
didn't go into each and every one of the
24 24 ouses on the way from his house to
the to the Bas Mish but he was saying
obviously take care of my health and I
got that good healthy glow to me
sometimes people have a nice healthy
healthy glow that's what the gumar says
three people and three different
views of Ruda so before him explain
let's analyze this a little bit why is
it that each one saw something different
why did each one see something different
R so it's
Aon was the re of Ruda so it's very
likely that if Ruda the talet if his
face was glowing so rabit taru and the
rebi chances are his face was glowing
probably even
more be say since Rie why is your face
glowing what do you think rev Taron is
suspecting raron who himself his face
glows with the kadha of Torah see
obviously expects that his Tom his face
is glowing with the
K says well we ate
spinach well those of us raes in America
Nots what spinach does for you it's got
nothing to do with glowing faces so
obviously you know popey notwithstanding
spinach is not something we ever found
in the cartoons that makes your face
glow so what what what's with what's
with what's with the glow so humility
said to but what did ritar see he saw a
talid who's been learning Torah and his
face is glowing a Roman Noble woman what
do you expect life of a Roman Noble
woman how do you think she's living
Roman Noble woman who's indulging in all
sorts of delices drinks wine on a
regular basis well if somebody else's
face is glowing so what Association does
she make well if his face is glowing it
must be that it's glowing because of
wine same as my face when my face glow
so she said to Himi must be that you're
a drinker R said no no no no by us you
know I don't I only drink couple times a
year and then comes it the comes through
what would you see you see one of the is
walks in his face is glowing oh he must
be a lender of Interest or that's what
you expect from is that's what they
obviously The Logical conclusion no
that's DOI sees himself in R Yuda he
knows what he would be doing cuz he's a
low life he's a no good he's AI he'd be
doing a so he figures well if his face
is glowing must be for the same reason
my face was be glowing if I was him oh
you must be Mal
or says no no no once you get to a
saduki you give a saduki an answer that
that a saduki deserves you know what it
has to do with bathrooms right that's
something that's something a saduki that
that that a saduki deserves that's what
he says toi 24
bathrooms the rule is that each person
sees a reflection of himself when you
see somebody else you often see a
reflection of yourself we know that
during this
period
obviously there's an issue constantly
resurfaces interpersonal relationships
how we deal with other people
so my son told me he was once on a
bus bus driver stop you know in Israel
that's not uncommon a bus driver could
stop anywhere in the middle of the
street block traffic in four directions
for whatever reason and he did and
everybody on the bus looks and the bus
driver then opens the door hops off the
bus walks over to a poor person by the
sidewalk gives him some money and then
gets running back on the bus he got off
the bus to give Sedaka so now that we
hear the story say oh yeah well that's
Israeli bus drivers is that what you
thought is that what you think every
time you see a bus driver sometimes we
see a bus driver bus driver maybe
doesn't look like the man who's about to
go and run and give Sedaka does he and
what you see when you look at that Jew
there's a Jew over there what do you see
do you see the kadua the potential of a
Jew do you see something rough coarse
and Gruff what do you see and gentlemen
rosai often what we see is a reflection
of ourselves a person who himself is R
will often see R in another person a
person who is coarse crude and selfish
will see selfishness in the other person
the way we are the gor is telling you
you see a reflection of
yourself as a Young
Man mother-in-law was
visiting came to visit
Israel so she came to her son-in-law and
she said she wanted to spend the day in
SAS want to go up to SAS she said to
sonla but I need you to get me a private
cab driver said but not an
Arab son-in-law said okay and he calls
his friend the Arab cab driver it's
cheaper said Musa says Musa do me a
favor I want you to take my
mother-in-law up toas true story take my
mother-in-law up to SAS for the day but
just do me a favor put on a
yarma she okay fine was poto so mus
comes up pulls up is wearing arica takes
the Mother-in-law up to fast for the day
guy's a little nervous way all day she
comes back he says to her ma how was it
says was great says and how was the cab
driver says oh a very nice man and a too
right so you know I mean is that what
you saw in her is that what you would
see how did she see that the answer is
that's what she was looking for it's got
a y he probably quoted a couple of Pim
and she sees that as something
impressive as a reflection of what she
really looking for
that's what she
sees what we see is a reflection of what
we're looking
for
often we are very short with other
people we're critical of other people I
heard once there was a RV was once
giving a shear and in the middle of the
shear a dog walked into the room a
straight poodle came walking this is so
telling about human nature a poodle came
walking into the room and of course
everybody in the room turned and looked
they said a poodle a doggy look at the
doggy doggy cute doggy everybody's
looking at the
doggy true that's what we do when a
doggy walks in assuming he's not too big
that's how people react a doggy a poodle
so cute I hope he has a home what do you
do when a person walks in how many
people like a human being wow oh it's
not most of us don't do that most of us
when a person walks into the room if we
notice them at all there's usually kind
of a critical look at that person I
don't like the way he's walking but they
think he is why sit is hanging so low
that we always got there's something
critical that we see in the person in
interpersonal relationships we are
masters of turning critical what we see
in somebody else is really if a person
wants to know what's going on inside of
me take a look at somebody else there's
generally going to be a
reflection I've come to a
conclusion originally I said it as a
joke not as a joke just as kind of a
almost almost a joke and now I'm
convinced of Almost 100% that it's true
we go to sh every day we're always
daving three times a day we DAV go to
Minion in the morning what is the
purpose of going to sh in the morning I
used to be under convinced I was always
assumed that the purpose of going to
schul was to Davin that's what I thought
up until I came to this profound
conclusion I used to think schul is for
davant and I
realized that I'm not 100% sure that's
so
you see what happens was when you go to
sh and you know as well as I do walk
into sh in the morning there's somebody
in my
seat I'm already remember coming home
from sh one morning and my wife said to
me you look tense said I don't look
tense I am tense why are you tense I was
just in sh for an hour try it you'll see
you'll see what happens go to sh there's
somebody sitting in my
seat take a deep breath be at sadic
don't thumb them out like sliding into
the third base instead of sometimes
people walk over just out you're in my
seat you're out of there right said okay
you know what let him sit so he go sit
somewhere else in the sh and then 2
minutes later somebody comes over and
thumbs me out of the seat so I'm already
on my third seat I haven't even put my
filling on yet sit down the guy next to
me is ding too
loud go over and open the window to get
a little bit of air guy next to the
window closes it he's cold put on the
air conditioning nobody wants it they're
too cold put on the heat and summer
they're too hot back and for I haven't
even started diving yet the kazin's
moving too fast the kazin's moving too
slow the guy would dropped two times in
one week somebody in SCH just dropped a
stender in the middle of D just the
middle boom with an explosion in the
middle of ding now I haven't even as in
the middle of doing I if you're really
lucky there's some kid behind you who's
9 years old who's manipulating a tender
loses control and it hits you in the
back of the neck and then people wonder
why are you tense why am I tense I'm
lucky that I'm in one peace are you
kidding you walk behind a kid on on on
hosana Raba never walk behind a child
who's holding aula on H Raa ever ever
always stand in front of him even then
watch where we something on the back of
your neck otherwise stand stand behind
him your eyes are imperil so you know
and then then you come home why are you
tense so I came to the conclusion
sh is a place to work on our meos it
just happens to be that while we're
there we're ding but when I go to Sho
what am I really going for this is
something we have to think about all the
time every happening you go to the CLE
and you get to the kisil you're finally
ready to start doing then there's
somebody there to lighten your
load and often the reaction is one
second I didn't come here to give sta I
came here to DAV you sure you sure your
ding is that magnificent is that sure
you sure that's why you came to the kiso
that's not why I go to k it's not why I
should I go to do the a sashem and when
I get there I find out by the way I
thought AEM was daving with intensity
and cavana and connecting then I find
out you know what my a was my V hasem is
to pull money out of my pocket and give
it to somebody even if he smells like
vodka I still have to give him a little
bit of something that's my without
getting upset that's become my a man
who's about to leave the
house all
all he's pumped himself up he's dressed
in white he's got a t son he's ready to
go out the door and his wife says to him
I'm not feeling well I think I have a
fever I need you to stay home and take
care of the
kids oh he is right all that work all
that aod I don't understand you what do
you care you're in it for you or you're
in it to serve
toon why are you doing it is it for you
or
it's why are we there we're there to
serve so what do you care how you serve
this is what Theon obviously wants from
you a person who can't fast
famous story of
the goes to the doctor doctor examines
him and he says to the Reb I want to
speak to your children so the sons come
in Reb's Sons come in he says to them
listen rosi I have some distressing news
I examined your father he's an elderly
man he's not going to be able to fast
this uranium
Kipper so the boys are uh oh you know
okay Ruan you tell them no no shim you
tell them no no no you tell them they
said we'll tell them together so they
walk tati some distressing news you're
not going to be able to fast this
uranium
Kipper say
okay so well aren't you
upset expected an explosion says no I'm
not upset so why aren't you upset says
why should I be upset he says well you
can't fast on your ker actually I mean
you're going to have to eat not even she
room going to just have to eat out right
on your Kipper so says that's fine says
why aren't you upset he says look for 50
years I've served a by fasting
on this year I'm going to serve a by
eating on y doesn't make a difference to
me I don't fast because it's Yumer I
fast because that's that's
my so if right now I have to eat I'll
eat if right now I'm in sh and it means
giving up my seat and Sho well I
understand why is it we thumb people out
now let's think about this carefully I
thumb him out out of my seat because IID
on the that you got in
your really if I was so moid why am I
late to
sh why is someone in my seat to begin
with why didn't I get there on time I'm
not because of
the I mock because he that person that
Invader is in my seat that's why I mock
bit now what do you think is a better a
voter right now what do you think is my
real a voter right now my real is to
walk off into the corner and sit
somebody else that become somewhere else
that becomes my aoda in sh a person
understands SCH is a workshop for
ouros heard about a man who went to
schul rasham Kipper he bought two seats
for y he bought two seats you know why
two seats he bought in sh because he
knew he knew that he doav with
Hiser and even though the says you could
DAV you could raise your voice voice a
little bit you can even make weeping
sounds which then causes people next to
us to genuinely cry but you can make
weeping sounds but he didn't want to
bother anybody else in show so he bought
two seats now what happens when you buy
a seat this happens you bought a seat in
sh on Kipper and then you get the show
and somebody's sitting in your
seat that's a test what do you think a
who wants you out of my seat I bought
the seat and why did you buy the seat
because it's your Gipper and therefore
what do you want on your Gipper to serve
a now get out of my seat you're sto me
from s go Ro do you hear the irony do
you hear what you hear what this is
about so the person understands I heard
somebody went to a house guy comes in a
guest comes into the house there's a
rambunctious
7-year-old the father says to him Yankee
kid spill something at the table father
says Yankee
relax then Yankee kid goes over and he
does something to his sister and the g
says Yankee please relax kid goes over
to spill something Yankee just relax and
this keeps going on finally after he
keeps saying yane relax finally guess
says to him I'm really impressed at how
calm you are with your son that's really
impressive father says there's nothing
to be impressed about his name is aomi
I'm
yane yane
relax that's something we should be
saying to ourselves in every
interpersonal
relationship every time somebody Cuts
ahead of us every time somebody takes
our seat every time somebody says
something just relax don't you just
relax there are other people in your
world just relax a little bit just just
relax
soal
say what destroyed the basa mdash so say
Kam the story of Kam
bar say the story of the two men
everybody
knows because of a chicken and a hen a
rooster and a hen tur Mala was destroyed
T Mala was a big city big Jewish
City because the wheel of Wagon Wheel
betar was
destroyed so what was it that destroyed
the B
okay two men had a bicker didn't like
each other whatever reason threw him out
of aasta wouldn't let him stay at the
banquet whatever it was everybody knows
the story what was this tarnol and
tarolas says the
gumar when there would be a
wedding and kala they would lead them
out to the with a rooster and a hen as a
symbol symbolic gesture beautiful
midnight one day there was a Roman
platoon they came by they took the
chicken in the
rooster they took it away I guess they
were hungry so the Jews jumped them and
they killed them and word got back to
Rome they sent in the reinforcements and
they destroyed the entire
city what happened with the sck of the
wrist bu what happened with the Wagon
Wheel there was another quaint minut
when a boy was born they would plant a
certain type of tree when a girl was
born they would plant a certain type of
tree a female tree and when the two got
married they would take these trees
these saplings or would became trees
already 20 years later 15 years later
whenever they got married and they would
use those to make the out of them
beautiful and one day a Roman princess
was coming by and her Wagon Wheel broke
so she uprooted these trees to take to
fix her wagon to get the wood to fix her
wagon so they jumped the entire group
and killed them and that brought in the
Romans and they destroyed the entire
city of betar which had countless
Millions when make a of the how many
people were living in betar where I
don't know if it's this bear or near
this bayar countless millions of people
were destroyed so for point
out that if you stop and think about
it a chicken in a ro a rooster and a hen
really should not cause the destruction
of an entire city T Mala the the
mountain of the King was destroyed
because of a rooster in a h I understand
the Roman were upset but the trigger was
a rooster and a hen that just doesn't
add up that's what caused it and kamu
bar two guys are bickering that causes
destruction ofas of mdash you Shan CU
two men were bickering and a wagon wheel
because of a treat what's going on here
what's going on so the answer seems to
be there two the answer is
twofold little things if if we're
punished because of little things it
means we're guilty of little
things if is balil the punishment
through little things that means that
there is something little that we're
guilty of That's The Meta connate
mea we're guilty how significant is it
to talk lanara a word you said a word
nothing you didn't even even if you
didn't cause damage how significant is
it that a person is a little
inconsiderate Little Things
and the answer is that what we look at
is little things a little what it's not
normal you you resent the guy because he
takes your parking space in front of
your building every morning it's not
normal to resent the guy I mean what
could be worse than that especially if
your name is there and you've been
taking somebody else's parking space and
now he's taking your parking space it's
a little
thing not such a little
thing are teaching us you know what how
he things when you deserving of it
that's what gives you why isn't it a
little thing why is it that every human
being you meet every single person
there's one common denominator I don't
care where you're from there's one
common denominator you will meet you
will find it every single person you
ever meet in your whole life Bend close
and listen
carefully every single person you meet
you will hear a little voice inside that
says please respect me it's a voice
you'll hear hear it Bend close and
you'll hear it and when you don't
respect that person it's the essence of
the person that's being
destroyed and therefore the Torah is
telling us K are teaching us that's what
destroyed Yim that's what destroyed T
Mala that's what destroyed betar little
things because we're guilty of little
things they had two
men were
fighting there were drove the school bus
what's called in Israel ATT tender
tender is what we used to call in the
Old Country we call it a van call it in
Israel the tender it's anything but
tender and they buy they would drive
this they would drive this tender to
school they had the driver and you have
the guy who apparently was not good in a
previous gilgal because his job is to
supervise the children on the school
bus and they had a fight as they got to
every stop the driver say okay I'm
opening the door you take the open open
up the door take the kid off and the
supervisor said that's not my job my job
is the supervisor you're the driver you
open the door and you take the kid off
they argued at every step so they went
to one of the from
the they went through said why do we
settle this but a tender full ofer
children and each one of us is arguing
who should open the
door said I want you to know every one
of those children is a safer Torah a
living safer Torah and the words of
Torah are being carved on the hearts of
those children every time you open the
door of the tender it's like you're
opening an arodes and taking out a safe
RAR and of course the next day they had
a fight
again it was a fight but that's a
beautiful fight who's got the to open
the door to take out a living safer
Torah out of the tender that's how we're
supposed to see every other Jew R hutner
says you know the word Adam man is the
same letters as the word
me means very much is means very much
every human being it's an
unquantified amount how much are you
you're a you're a very much how much
very much that means there's no limit
every person every Adam has unlimited
potential who is that person that you're
mistreating who is that person you're
being insensitive to do you know what
kind of potential he has do you know
where that person could be going you
know what could come of that person and
you're being inconsiderate we are
inconsiderate of a fellow Jew you could
disagree with the person's approach you
could disagree with his sh you could
disagree with some of the beliefs or
some of the hashas that you could
disagree with but the person himself is
a
Jew he's a m he's an he's got Limitless
potential that we have no right to take
lightly they had a couple he had a
child they came
to REM Stern in America a very
interesting little very interesting
little little
quarrel couple had a child came to a
mayor Stern in
pic the husband wanted to name the
grandchild the child was born after his
father-in-law he wanted to honor his
father-in-law and name the child after
his
father-in-law and the wife the daughter
of the Zeta she said no I don't want to
name the child after my
father the husband said why not she
saids because my H father was a posid I
want to name my father my child after a
big person my husb my father was a nice
man who was a posha he a plain ordinary
Jew and the husband said your father is
the grandfather who should name after
him and the daughter said no they went
to Stern and R Stern said tell me about
your father where did your father raise
your family
Detroit when was it sometime in the
50s and you have any siblings yeah have
three brothers two sisters where are
they today one brother's a rebi and
Yeshiva the other one's still learning a
Col the other one's
also running a Yeshiva and your sisters
one of them is married to a rebi the
other one's married to a guy just he's
learning in col
Mary Stern said a Jew who raised the
family in America in the 50s and all of
his children are Ben Torah that's not
a name the child after your
father I would like to just add one more
step a Jew Living in America in the 50s
is not a and a Jew in this base is not
there is no such thing as a there's no
such thing there are two types of Jews
there's a Jew who's growing and a Jew
who's stagnating a Jew who's growing is
not a there's no such thing if he's
growing he's packed with mites packed
with merits and packed with striving
it's not AA a Jew who's stagnating just
have to find the on switch to get him
that he's growing and moving there's no
such thing as a and say for
bra
so after they do the
thank you very
much and then comes to tell now what's
going to be as a result of what you're
done so this is where lowers the
boom he says the following he
says because you obeyed your wife and
you ate from the fruit which I told you
not to eat the Earth is cursed you're
going to eat it in frustration it's
going to sprout thorns and missles and
you're going to
sweat until you
die goes from bad to worse frustration
working sweat
death now what do you think the next PK
should say what do you think if you were
Adam Harish and you turn to your wife
who qua this what do you think you would
say right most Adams at that point would
turn and say well thanks a lot right
thanks a lot and I asked for you to be
here right thanks a lot I was doing
better on my own that's what most people
would
say in the very next
p your dirt you're gon to go back to the
dirt she's the mother of all living
beings how
quaint warms the heart what's going on
here you just got told worse Destiny
than anybody has ever heard in history
turn to his wife and
says so then that
say there's something implied which is
not so positive but the pup shot is that
he looked at her and he saw what's good
about her yes she's going to cause him
to sweat yes she's going to take his
credit card yes he's going to
die but look at all the good she's
brought him she's the aai that's what
he's going to be focused on there's
another person there I'm going to be
focused on on the good I have two
choices here focus on the negative focus
on the positive I'm going to focus on
the
positive that's a lesson from from aut
from the first man that's how we're
supposed to deal with every other person
we can look at everybody and see
something to be critical of and what
we're supposed to do is we're supposed
to look at that person and say there's a
human being there's an who's with
potential I have to treat that person
with respect and with sensitivity
there's a man there's a garbage strike
in
Israel know it's difficult to
believe usually right around pesak
time and garbage was accumulating in the
hallway people were putting their
garbage right past their front door so
there was a man saw his neighbor
garbage and he walked from door to door
in each door he took a bag and he took
the garbage and walked outside with
their garbage found some place outside
to put
it so somebody asked why are you doing
that I mean it's a lot of
work he said look I've been living in
this building for 25 years I've been
living with these same neighbors for 25
years in 25 years I have accumulated a
debt
of to each and every one of my
neighbors now if you ask anybody some of
you who live in independent dwellings
ask anybody who lives in Israel
in a small building of 46
dwellers ask them about their neighbors
I give you a list and tell me what you'd
like the flaws of your neighbors and why
you've got a grudge against them there
isn't enough paper in the world oh my
neighbors oh here we go make my day way
to stay busy anti above right just start
writing and writing on the other hand
why don't you make a list of the things
they benefited you with they have kids
who are not negative influences on your
kids they're positive influences they
have homes of kadus why you think about
what your neighbors have done for you
you could focus on the negative and you
could focus on the positive and whatever
you focus on is a reflection of you that
is an indication of who you are it's
indication of where you're coming
from the remarkable irony here do you
know that this rev Yehuda whose face was
glowing do you know what his financial
status was the Roman
matrona the the the saduki who sees him
as a wealthy man do you know what rud's
financial status was the gorah says Ruda
was so poor his wife had to make a
garment that the two of them had to take
turns wearing
outside and of course you even talk
about how they got around the problem of
beisha she had to make a garment that
each one they were so poor they couldn't
even afford their own apparently some
sort of overcoat and they had to share
the garments with each other and they
had to take turns outside he was poor as
could be yet his face was glowing how
does a person achieve that
say but it's more than that and this is
how we are in our interpersonal
relationships if I feel good about
myself I'll see the good in other
people my life situation does not have
to be reflected negatively on my face a
person whose inside is developed with r
with Torah the person feels upbeat
because he's connected to Torah he'll
see good in the other people and when a
person sees other people he seees
something negative that means something
inside is not quite not as it should be
it's a msus it's a fact of life if
Yehuda was so poor yet he reflects as a
wealthy man cuz he's so full of
contentment and Joy inside of substance
inside and that's going to be bouncing
off of other people when he looks at
them and sees other people Man became a
balua
and before he became a baluba he was a
professional Thief used to steal
diamonds very good at what he did and
eventually he became
from and he got married had a wife three
children and finances got tough things
got tight
so he daved did the
propertyless Gish nothing family
struggling didn't know what to do so
finally one day he decided look I have
one thing that I know that I'm good at
I'll go I'll do one more job go to a Jew
jewelry shop do one more job but I'll
get a good one this time one time just
one time and then I'll benefit I'll be
I'll be W need parosa for a long time
Hashem should forgive me and and so he
does he waits till midnight takes all
his equipment he's got a glass cutter
goes down to the most expensive jewelry
shop in town not a soul on the street
deserted Street quiet dark he goes over
to the window and he pulls out his glass
cutter he feels terrible about this but
listen he's got a wife and children
pulls out the glass cutter he's about to
start cutting also some FR guy with a
blackheaded past that's staring at him
he looks up he realizes stop guy it's
his own reflection in the window all a
sudden he saw who he really is he saw a
reflection in the window say okay you
know what put down the glass cutter went
home ended his career of crime CU he
realized who he really is we often
wonder we want to gug who am I really
what's going on inside of
me the acid test is look around you if
you see a guy in sh and you see a guy in
SCH he's putting on a show he's ding
Schon almost like on he's on a jungle
gym he's
on there are two ways to look at him you
could look at him as come on buddy stop
putting on a show or you could look at
him asem at least he's trying to make an
impression through daving instead of
some other way he's growing he'll mature
and he'll eventually get to the point
where realize don't put on a show but
look at least he's trying at least
that's what's important and that's how
he wants to impress people somebody who
learns in the base MERS late at night
wants to be the last one out of the base
Meers absolutely refuses to leave till
somebody else leaves so he can be the
last one out and say I was the last one
out even if he misses sheer the next
morning misses minion so there are two
ways to look at him okay you know he's
got a way to go you'll mature one day
you'll get past it which is true the
other way is look what's important to
him look where he wants to establish
himself what you see is who you are what
you see is a reflection of yourself
should help us that we should activate
within ourselves the eye in TOA to look
at people with a good eye and if we do
that ACC always
pays we look at others with an ey in TOA
with a good generous eye we're
considerate of other people we realize
there a over there there's something
precious and valuable
there look at with an and bring us all
of the yeshu and the
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