The Way We View

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

Imagine for a moment you're walking on Chavis down the main street in your town and there's a bus, there's buses, city buses, and people take the city buses. It's safe. We're going to pretend this story took back took place 40 years ago when it was actually safe to go on city buses. And you pass by a bus stop and sitting in this bus stop are three boys from your community. Unfortunately, they're what we call off the they're no longer keeping properly. They don't have yamakas. It's an shabas. They don't look very shabistic and they're sitting in the bus and you're across the street and all of a sudden a bus pulls up. You don't see what happens because the bus is blocking your view and a minute later the bus leaves and those three boys are no longer in the bus stop. So usually we jump to a conclusion they went on a bus on chabas. Okay, you know whatever at least they didn't drive themselves. Um but how do you look at that situation and judge it favorably? How what happened at Neesh? They were taking one of the guys to the hospital because it was emergency situation. They were sitting there and chilling. Now I want to switch one variable in the

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1. 0:00Imagine for a moment you're walking on Chavis down the main street in your town and…
2. 0:32don't see what happens because the bus is blocking your view and a minute later the…
3. 1:03story. Imagine for a moment that you're walking down the main street in your town and…
4. 1:33use your imagination to be really creative where the went. I don't know. Maybe a bunch…
5. 2:05something negative about them. But unfortunately we do and because we do lots of harm ensues…

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