Dan L'kaf Zechus and Judging Others Favorably
Bitachon Weekly | March 28, 2024
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Dan L'kaf Zechus and Judging Others Favorably

Bitachon Weekly | June 27, 2025

וכתב החפץ חיים (ספר שמירת הלשון, שער התבונה פרק ד)...

death marches, if the Jews didn’t march in a straight line, they were beaten to death. The Nazis, Y'mach Sh'mam, would scream at them: “Why aren’t you walking straight?! Can’t you walk like a mensch?!” They were talking to starving, half-dead people, and they were outraged, since those Jews weren’t following orders. ********

Have you even seen a parent screaming at a child: “Why aren’t you learning and/or davening like a normal boy?” Their child may have 1,000 good reasons why he simply can’t do what’s expected of him. “Why don’t you help at home?” Maybe having a screaming nervous parent is exactly the reason, since it’s so difficult to perform properly with such a background. *********

How many people we accuse and look down upon, when they aren’t the “Chasidim” or “Bnei Torah” or nice people that we expect them to be! How they suffer! What cruelty! Being Dan L'kaf Zechus is an emergency issue. In Shamayim they judge people the same way those people judged others. (Chazal).

Your positive opinion of others is super powerful

וכתב החפץ חיים (ספר שמירת הלשון, שער התבונה פרק ד)...

death marches, if the Jews didn’t march in a straight line, they were beaten to death. The Nazis, Y'mach Sh'mam, would scream at them: “Why aren’t you walking straight?! Can’t you walk like a mensch?!” They were talking to starving, half-dead people, and they were outraged, since those Jews weren’t following orders. ********

Have you even seen a parent screaming at a child: “Why aren’t you learning and/or davening like a normal boy?” Their child may have 1,000 good reasons why he simply can’t do what’s expected of him. “Why don’t you help at home?” Maybe having a screaming nervous parent is exactly the reason, since it’s so difficult to perform properly with such a background. *********

How many people we accuse and look down upon, when they aren’t the “Chasidim” or “Bnei Torah” or nice people that we expect them to be! How they suffer! What cruelty! Being Dan L'kaf Zechus is an emergency issue. In Shamayim they judge people the same way those people judged others. (Chazal).

Your positive opinion of others is super powerful

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