Why Should I Give People the Benefit of the Doubt?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

there are three words in parshas condition that seemed quite straightforward and simple and yet contain an extraordinary message and perspective on life that I wish to address with you today the passage says the verse says in Leviticus 1915 Valkyrie you test test of parakeet as positive of purchase condition but Zedeck tishbite a moussaka translated literally with justice shall you judge your friend your fellow human being the meaning of this words of these words is explained by the sages by the Casal to contain two interpretations the Gomora the Talmud in mrs. Lewis nephelometer Act H mu is page 30 gives two different interpretations to these words one is it's a message addressed to judges the people who are in positions who have to judge leaders of Courts lawyer judges dhyanam shaved him etc but said the Kurdish Potamus akka is an injunction to judge people with justice and that includes not just not to corrupt the law which the toyota warns against in other places but it includes even subtleties as the Gomorrah explains don't have one person two people come to court you have a you have the litigant you have the defendant you have the travail you have the nipple you the one who is demanding the one who's being accused don't allow one person to stand and one person to sit don't greet one person warmly and the other person called ly don't allow one person to give a long presentation and the other one you say we're in a rush make it fast all of these types of behaviors even though you don't see any explicit corruption he's sitting he's standing but what it does is it creates an atmosphere with that we there's a lack an absence of complete balance and equality and it undermines the law of

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