How do you look at Evil People?

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]What do you say?

[00:00:04]It's a difficult question to answer.

[00:00:09]We said that you have it done as judge everybody favorably. But what about evil people?

[00:00:17]What do we do with that?

[00:00:19]How do we look at evil? What is our approach?

[00:00:32]Okay, that's a big thing. Can you love evil people?

[00:00:40]That's a big question.

[00:00:44]Is that the question? That's the question.

[00:00:47]Can a person love evil people?

[00:00:50]>> I know it's heavy. This is a heavy question, Ron.

[00:00:53]>> Yes.

[00:00:57]So in order to understand this obviously we have to see r pesimar r pay bay. So this is major stuff here.

[00:01:08]So everybody look inside the r pes d.

[00:01:17]Now where do we see that?

[00:01:20]We saw that from the sort of is not making that up. He's saying that there's a that you need to judge everybody favorably.

[00:01:33]Even if somebody is a Russ, how do I judge him favorably? He's a Russia. He's evil.

[00:01:42]>> He's evil.

[00:01:47]>> What does evil even mean?

[00:01:49]>> You're getting philosophical over here.

[00:01:52]He's evil.

[00:01:57]So what we're doing is that the Mishna told us you should judge everybody favorably.

[00:02:05]We're learning this piece in if you have your lutan it's not it's the full maran is explaining what does it mean to actually judge people favorably how do we do that if somebody is evil then how do we judge them favorably so herenappen quotes open up rab so duh by the way this is one of the most famous toyas in all of the bless you is All the schools, we have to judge everybody favorably.

[00:02:42]Whoa. Even if he's a complete Russia, he's complete Russia.

[00:02:49]He's totally evil.

[00:02:53]Can you love an evil person?

[00:02:58]>> Are we saying love or >> Okay, that's what we're being bringing up here. Love, love, judging favorably.

[00:03:05]What are we really speaking about here?

[00:03:20]hat.

[00:03:29]>> This is a major question is how does the Torah want us to look at evil people?

[00:03:37]This is a heavy topic. How should you look at an evil person?

[00:03:42]Because it says So this is where really mamish gets involved. You guys ready for this? This is where if you want to know where breast love is especially unique.

[00:04:03]So you've entered into the world of breast love now by this.

[00:04:07]So let's see take us on a journey of how a person is supposed to look at evil people.

[00:04:17]Even if somebody is totally evil, you have to search.

[00:04:38]meaning he's bad.

[00:04:41]And by the way, bad as mean good. Like nowadays, you know, it's bad. No, I think bad went back to being bad. It's not good anymore. It's back to bad.

[00:04:50]Is bad. He's bad.

[00:04:53]But did he never do one good thing in his life?

[00:04:58]Is there not one spark of holiness inside of him?

[00:05:04]So at any point did he not do one good thing in in his entire life?

[00:05:13]Did he not have one pure thought in his entire life?

[00:05:18]Did he not one time want to help a old lady cross the road?

[00:05:30]He didn't, but he wanted to.

[00:05:34]He had one redeeming moment in his life.

[00:05:38]Could you say that there's such a thing that a person never had one good thought?

[00:05:43]If so, then we're talking about something different.

[00:05:46]>> Are we saying >> there are very evil people out there?

[00:05:56]We're talking about them, >> but we're talking about that. Did they not do one good thing ever in their life?

[00:06:13]>> Let's say good according to the Tory, not like a psychopath, but that even him he did something good.

[00:06:25]He did something objectively good.

[00:06:31]I wouldn't care.

[00:06:34]I wouldn't care evil.

[00:06:41]I'm like I'm not >> Let's go.

[00:06:46]>> Okay. Fine. Fine.

[00:06:47]>> I'll be I'll be honest.

[00:06:48]>> I I appreciate the honest person.

[00:06:52]>> I don't know what we're talking about being nice. You have an obligation.

[00:06:56]You have an obligation to judge people favorably.

[00:07:00]A >> as a Jew, as a Jew, we have an obligation to judge people favorably.

[00:07:09]Which really means to see the point of good in another.

[00:07:13]And Rabman said even if he's a Russia gummer, a very bad person.

[00:07:19]And I'll tell you why this is important in a moment. Why this is such an deep philosophy of what we believe in?

[00:07:28]Because you just want that guy to rot away.

[00:07:32]You know who believed in human beings?

[00:07:34]You're Zadei.

[00:07:36]Zadei Araven.

[00:07:40]You know he prayed for the people of Sado.

[00:07:44]You know how bad they were? Bad like actually bad. Not bad is good. Bad >> bad or human. human. These people would kill you if you did you acted kindly to another person.

[00:08:00]It was forbidden to have anybody come into your home and give them tea and crumpets.

[00:08:05]And if they found out 1984 style, big brother is watching you, they would take you up to the rooftop, put honey all over you, and have bees sting you to death.

[00:08:18]That's evil.

[00:08:21]The time with Sodom.

[00:08:23]Sodom and Gomorrah.

[00:08:26]Sadine. The Sodommites.

[00:08:31]Evil.

[00:08:33]Evil. And who believes in them?

[00:08:37]Au.

[00:08:41]Hashem's like, I'm going to destroy them.

[00:08:45]And Ara says, just give me 10. I'll make rebes out of them.

[00:08:52]Just 10.

[00:08:54]I just need 10. 50 for 45 30 20 10 please.

[00:09:03]I'll turn them into believes. Hashem responds it can't be.

[00:09:17]But from our perspective, from the perspective of Arainu, the belief in human beings, which by the way was one of the big distinctions why the Jewish nation comes from Abraham and not Noyak because Noyak didn't believe that people could change.

[00:09:39]Says that he didn't pray for the generation. He was a sadic, but he's like, "You guys are toast. You're just evil. Like, like I'll do my thing. Like, you do I'm making an arc here. Like, what's up, Noah?

[00:09:53]What? What are you building?

[00:09:56]An ark? Why says you're evil and God's going to make a flood?

[00:10:03]Oh, like you want to tell me anything else?

[00:10:08]Um, repent.

[00:10:14]What's Aramina doing?

[00:10:21]The tent is open on all four sides. He's got the gans all those pagans in there.

[00:10:29]They're all singing cat songs together songs telling over to the I'm sure sorry made a mean kal and choland was flowing all up in there.

[00:10:46]at lei ome.

[00:10:52]>> Yeah, I'm sure. No, come on. Sorry, man.

[00:10:54]I'm sure it was >> Ham and he What do you think the conversations look like?

[00:11:05]Au believed we asked a question if you could love evil people.

[00:11:13]very deep question as we go through re pay because this is really an explanation of the Mishna of Pavos what we're going to arrive at is that the purpose of seeing the good in another person is that that is ultimately a strategy to help them improve their ways as we'll see shortly which means is the way that a Jew is supposed to look at other people. It's not like I'll do my thing like you do your thing like you know just like whoo stay away. It's that I feel responsibility to help people change and be better and rehabilitate. That's why the Sadik would go to the jails.

[00:12:01]Arya Lavine the saddic of usal would go and bring a Torah scroll and lane for the prisoners would bring them to fillain said I know you've done things but I want to help you to change your ways if you're alive in this world you could become better you can come back to Hashem you could do chuva so let's go through this carefully which will help us understand the mitzvah of it is called so let's read the words you have to find that good in another person look for that good that in that point they're not evil now you might say yeah but come on they're being eclipsed by the evil yeah I get that but I'm not talking about that right We appreciate that that is horrible and has to be condemned and is evil and is wicked, not the good type of actual wicked. But I want to just focus for a second on a point of good that they did in their life. Now, why is that important? Because in that place, they're not a Russia.

[00:13:22]And if I could zone into that good, what happens?

[00:13:32]I find a point of good in another human being. Doesn't mean you're blind. You see what else is going on, but you say for a second with mature eyes, I'm choosing to focus on this point for a specific reason.

[00:13:50]I can actually judge you favorably.

[00:13:54]Because if you focus on that point of good, are you able to judge them favorably? Honestly, not a game.

[00:14:02]Yeah, this evil guy, I'll judge you favorably.

[00:14:05]That doesn't work. But if you go into that point of good that they've done and you look at that point, is that point a redeeming point inside of them?

[00:14:17]By the way, in breast, this is called the Let's go Moshe.

[00:14:25]This is the redeeming good point.

[00:14:29]The pint.

[00:14:31]Yes. Yseph last year. We remind you the three >> love the yidden. Okay. So, remind me at the end for the story. It's a really good story.

[00:14:45]It's really it's it's more of a it's more of a way that Jews see the world.

[00:14:54]that I'm actually judging him favorably for real because I'm focusing on that point of goodness that is inside of him.

[00:15:02]Oh, look at this.

[00:15:07]When you see the good in him, there's a metaphysical move that happens. What's the metaphysical move? Is that he will feel that somebody's seeing me for that point of good.

[00:15:24]Somebody's seeing that point of good and he'll start to more identify with that point of good. Yeah. Imagine a guy really got into bad things and then he had this constant tape loop in his brain. I'm a bad guy and I'm a criminal. I do these bad things. So he can't get out of them and someone comes over and he says there's something to inside of you. I'm not blind. I know you're you've done horrible things.

[00:15:52]We're not We're not justifying that, but I want to help you get better.

[00:15:59]I'm going to focus on the point of good that you've done.

[00:16:05]He will feel that someone is seeing that. We're talking about metaphysical reality. Come on. Everybody's felt the experience.

[00:16:13]>> Do you know what it feels like when somebody comes into the room and you get this feeling like they look down at you?

[00:16:20]like they're all like, you know, mogging you or something to use a technical term and it's like like feeling slinkedked into your chair.

[00:16:32]As if to say they're not looking at the best part of you, but then you get that feeling when somebody walks into the room and they see the good that's in you and all of a sudden you just like, whoa, okay, yeah.

[00:16:45]Like they see that which is good.

[00:16:48]By the way, it's sad. They write books like this on how to manipulate on the bad side like NLP stuff like manipulation books that CEOs use that when they walk in the room they have a way of making you small by diminishing you technique >> whatever all these power moves these things that are identifying weak points inside of you what's the Jew all about finding the good points inside of you, the points that make you great and focusing on those points, the nudas.

[00:17:29]And the Reb says something amazing quoting from the greatest Orthodox rabbi of all time, King David himself.

[00:17:40]And this is the idea quoting from King David. This is a very powerful PK about the Messiah.

[00:17:51]This is from Psalms 37.

[00:17:56]In one more moment in Russia, there will not be any evil.

[00:18:03]Speaking of the messianic era, in one more moment, there will no longer be any evil. this and you'll think about where evil was au and it's no longer there.

[00:18:21]What is this verse referring to? It's referring to the shift into the messianic era where it says there's going to be just a little bit of a moment a remember that word in there'll be no more evil in the world. It's coming. Rabida, get ready.

[00:18:39]There's going to be a time that all evil's gone from the world like we pray for in our that all the evil of the world will go up like smoke. It'll just dissipate.

[00:18:50]>> How will that happen?

[00:18:53]How will that happen if we're still human?

[00:18:58]>> The Yates will be >> Let's go.

[00:19:07]So one more moment the evil will be gone from the world. all the evil regimes and all the evil all the energy of evil will be gone from the world and King David says and then you'll like look around you're like where are all the terrors there's no more and that will usher in the messianic era just how it warms my heart so beautiful that's the simple shot in the rush just one just we're getting so close and before you realize it'll just be gone all the evil of the world and it will be such a shift to goodness and peace and love in the world.

[00:19:51]And my father used to say, the hippies used to say in the 60s, peace, love, groovy.

[00:19:59]I don't know about the groovy part, but peace and love for sure.

[00:20:06]>> A musician would say that.

[00:20:14]It's going to be beautiful. And it's going to be so beautiful that you're going to look back and you're going to be so amazed that there's no more evil that all the weapons are turned into plow shears. There's peace all over the world.

[00:20:30]So that's what King David is saying.

[00:20:32]Okay.

[00:20:35]What does this mean inis this p of nahmed took this pk and he said I want to explain this pk to you in she said should know the first time I learned this it changed my life mish r days bay is the is mish thera and when we started doing lut cafe so we asked which tora we should do he was getting out of his Cadillac so I said actually he was getting in so I didn't I didn't have much time I said rebut cafe which to should we do he's like r days.

[00:21:06]He's like, "Bye."

[00:21:10]And then he was off.

[00:21:15]>> His drivers do. Yeah. Posh, >> escalate. Pa for the reb. He goes in the PJ.

[00:21:24]Pasha sadikim.

[00:21:28]They're kings. It's posh.

[00:21:32]So look what says on this PK just hear this PK well then we'll say the story and then we'll have to go V tomorrow in this Indian one more little bit and there will not be any more evil and you look there and it's gone.

[00:22:02]The is teaching me how to judge everybody favorably.

[00:22:06]Meaning, you see the guy's mama Russia.

[00:22:13]Nevertheless, you have to look seek out and please let me find let me find in this human being a a point a little smidgen of something that's not bad, something that's redeemable, something that's good inside of his heart. So says the Reb, this is what it means.

[00:22:41]In Russian, inside of a human being, there's a O meat. There's an extra bit, a meat.

[00:22:53]Inside of a person, there's o another little bit. It's a rash. It's not a Russia.

[00:23:02]There's a Ome inside of a human heart. That's a rash.

[00:23:08]It's not evil.

[00:23:14]a little this guy still has even though he's doing terrible things and we're not blind to that but we're talking about strategy how we could help this guy that in that place in that little point of good in that little happy place inside of his heart he is good he's made in the image of God, he's human.

[00:23:46]It cannot be cannot be that there's not a little bit of good inside of him.

[00:23:58]Cannot be this person never did one good thing in his life. If you tell me the guy literally never did anything good, we're not talking about that. If he did one good thing in his entire life, there's a there's a little that's not a Russia.

[00:24:17]You find another Good.

[00:24:32]And then you start pulling him out the start pulling him from the side of of being guilty to the side of being exonerated because I'm focusing on his toe. We're talking about him this bad guy going through the transformation of identifying not as a bad person anymore but fixing his ways.

[00:25:00]And this is what the means.

[00:25:03]Next page, you find this little bit of good through this.

[00:25:16]You look at the place where he was acting bad and it's not there anymore. He starts going through the healing of fixing his bad ways.

[00:25:31]So this is a technology and we'll continue with this tomorrow of seeing good in another person that speaks about the because we come from Zam and we want to help human beings to change their ways and come back to the Lord Almighty and come back to God and come back to goodness and love and peace.

[00:25:59]So let's end with the story of the three Jews that loved Yidden more than anybody else.

[00:26:08]That was there's different gears on who these three are. The kaducious ley the balm and the rebusha some sayd was the biggest oel who loved the Israel also after.

[00:26:32]So they say they each had three different ways of understanding. So we know the kaducy what was his approach to a Israel? He was called the seneagra of Israel. He was called the great defender of the Jews. So if he saw something that was likeid.

[00:26:48]So you think that's your it's your biggest mile. He would flip everything.

[00:26:53]Unbelievable kaducious ley. You think it's you kidding me? You're great because of that >> something that you're lacking in. No.

[00:27:03]that challenge that you have and that disability is your greatest strength. It is my thank you.

[00:27:13]So that was later his he just had so much love for yidden he didn't see any he just didn't see anything he pushed only saw the to and the say his he said I see what's going on with you I see your but I love you on the ice with your broken said what brokenness you there's no broken broken yid and the is I see the brokenness but I'm with you I love you even with that I'm with you and I love you we should be to have tremendous and to be able to find that the point of good and see tremendous blessings amen amen.

[00:28:11]>> Amen.