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Why you SHOULD be judgmental
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With a simple (but not easy) shift, ancient Jewish wisdom teaches how you can drop resentment and enhance your relationships. Based on Igros Kodesh #torah #focus #judaism #presistence Sacred Letters shares practical insight and solutions to real-life issues. Each clip, presented by Rabbi Josh Zebberman, is based on The Lubavitcher Rebbe's Igros Kodesh - Sacred Letters, which contain dozens of volumes of diverse wisdom culled from personal correspondences with people from all walks of life.
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here's what you got to do you gotta
become more judgmental I don't mean that
facetiously I mean that quite literally
we have a judgment muscle that we're
using anyways usually judging
unfavorably which Harbors resentment
so the solution is just judge but judge
favorably that's what it says in
perkiavos
judged on the side of favor you might as
well assume the best you have very
little to lose and much to gain yeah
people see things differently we have a
Mitzvah to love our fellow we don't have
a mitsu to love their opinion and the
reason is because they are not their
opinion they are them they have an
opinion and when we see people as people
not just as the opinion that we don't
like about them we can love them on a
much deeper level even if we disagree
with them so going back to 1957 it was a
fellow who wrote to the lab about a
certain falling out that he had with
somebody he couldn't get along with him
the rep explained to him
this exact idea that the same God who
created you with seeing things
differently than this other person also
gave you the Mitzvah the Commandment to
love your fellow as yourself which means
you have to love him even if you don't
love his opinion and you can do that
if you get to the root of the issue and
here's the root of the issue here's what
the web explained to him what happens is
we're being judgmental but not in a
healthy way we create stories about
people we create stories about what's
going on in their mind
they're acting toward us in a certain
way they said something that they
probably shouldn't and we create this
story as to why they said that why they
did that and we don't even realize that
we've created this story and we feel
that they're resentful toward us and if
they're resentful toward us well I'm not
going to be the one to break the cycle
they gotta break the cycle so the rabbit
told him cut the ego man you got to
break the cycle and what you're going to
see is that the story's entirely made up
it's not even true you made this
assumption that wasn't founded on
something true this is so applicable in
in literally any relationship in a
marriage my husband and wife aren't
getting along with one another well we
create stories she said this because
this is what she was thinking this is
what's interested in her mind or he did
this because this is what he was
thinking he was late because he didn't
care well the not caring is an
assumption right she did this because
she doesn't value myself you've created
a reason right my kid is acting out
because they're careless because they're
neglectful because or whatever it is he
didn't Pace this person on time because
why are we making up reasons we know
facts we know what's going on we don't
know why if we don't know why let's not
make up that reason let's find out let's
learn about people and what we're going
to find out explain the rabbit is that
our reasons were probably incorrect it
just takes a little bit of humility to
admit that and when we do
the resentment dissipates because it was
founded on something that wasn't true
that's my story and I'm sticking to it