Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Judging Favorably

In the previous post I asked to be judged favorably. A true story I heard from a woman: She was a very religious girl and was dating a very religious boy. On a date he had his tefillin with him and she noticed that there was a mirror in his tefillin bag. She was appalled!! She couldn't imagine that a serious Ben Torah would be so concerned with his external appearance that he carries around a mirror. Could she marry such a boy??

Only afterwards she found out that men keep a mirror in their tefillin bag to make sure that the head tefillin are placed on the head squarely between the eyes. Today they are happily married.

Sometimes we think the worst about somebody, when the truth is that all he is trying to do is place G-d's presence squarely in his brain!!!

May we always see only the best in others!!!!!!!!!!!