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Other People’s Shoes

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

Strategies for judging favorably.

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efore I left for my college year in India in 1968, my friends warned me not to act like a Western imperialist and impose my lifestyle on the Indians. “Don’t worry,” I joked. “I won’t buy shoes for the natives.”

But four months later, I found myself doing precisely that.

Twelve-year-old Mundju was the daughter of the family of servants who attended on the International Ladies’ Hostel, where I lived. While the rest of the women and girls in her family were congenial and beautiful, Mundju was morose and homely.

She rarely spoke and never smiled.

Like everyone else in her family, she went barefoot. Unlike everyone else, she had deep cracks in her feet. One day she came to my room limping. When I asked her what was wrong, she silently showed me a deep gash in her left foot.

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I whisked her off to a doctor in the nearby clinic. He pronounced her foot infected. He prescribed some antiseptic cream, and a pair of shoes. “If she doesn’t wear shoes to protect her feet,” he warned, “the infection will never heal. She’ll be crippled.”

“Do you want shoes?” I asked in simple Hindi.

Mundju’s eyes lit up and she grinned.

I hailed a bicycle rickshaw and took Mundju to the Bata shoe store in the center of the city.

She happily picked out a pair of patent leather Mary Janes, which cost twice what I had expected to spend. Remembering my mother’s dictum, “No use buying you something you don’t like, because you won’t wear it,” I forked out the price of the Mary Janes from my meager student allowance, and handed the shoebox to Mundju. “Wash your feet when you get home, and put them

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on,” I instructed her. “I never want to see you without them.”

The next day, she came to my room barefoot. I was exasperated. How could she be so heedless?! “Why aren’t you wearing your new shoes?!”

She lifted up her heel and showed me a huge blister. It had not occurred to me that a girl who has no shoes has no socks.

I dropped what I was doing, found a rickshaw, and took Mundju back into the center of town. I bought her two pairs of white socks. Now we were “all systems go.”

I didn’t see Mundju for the next few days. Then, riding home one day, I saw her in the distance. She was walking barefoot.

I felt indignant. Here I had spent time, money, and energy trying to help her, and she was flaunting the doctor’s orders and not wearing her shoes. How ungrateful!

How reckless!

I went straight to the servants’ quarters

and accosted Mundju’s mother. She looked at me sadly and said, “Don’t you understand? These are the only pair of shoes Mundju will ever own. She’s saving them for special occasions.”

BEFORE WE CONDEMN A couple decades later I learned about one of the Torah’s most intriguing mitzvot, the obligation to judge other people favorably. The Torah enjoins us: “Judge your fellowman justly.” [Lev. 19:15] The classic commentators explain this to mean “judge your fellowman favorably and interpret his actions and words only to the good.” [Sefer HaChinuch 235] Three thousand years before the advent of Cognitive Psychology, the Torah recognized that our attitudes (and consequently our words and actions) are formed not by what the other person said or did, but rather by our interpretation of what the other person said or did. Therefore, the Torah obligates us, whenever possible, to find or devise a favorable interpretation.

Instead of condemning,

whenever possible, devise a favorable interpretation.

This mitzvah pulls the rug out from under the critical, condemning attitude that characterizes much of our interpersonal relations. In practice it looks like this: Instead of faulting a friend for not calling you back when she said she would, you could think: “She may have tried to call me back, but my line was busy,” or “She

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(leaving you sitting at home all afternoon waiting), you could think: “His previous client may have had a more complicated job than expected,” or “When he went to phone me that he’d be late, he couldn’t find my number or his cellphone battery was low.”

The result of judging others favorably is that we cultivate a positive, sympathetic attitude toward others. When we don’t think badly about others, we don’t speak badly about others, and we certainly don’t act out angry, vengeful behaviors. We don’t jump to conclusions. We don’t condemn people who may be suffering circumstances far beyond our ken. We avoid a host of sins simply by putting our minds into the mode of favorable judgment.

Judging others favorably does not preclude self-protective actions or positive steps to redress wrongs. Judging others favorably doesn’t mean to leave your $300 iPod on your desk when you go to the rest room. It does mean that if you don’t find your iPod where you’re sure you left it, check every drawer and pocket before you start suspecting your fellow workers.

Often we are sure -- and wrong!

Judging others favorably does not mean that when your child comes home in tears because her teacher yelled at and insulted her, you should refrain from taking measures to handle the situation. It does mean that before angrily calling the principal and demanding that the teacher be fired, you entertain the possibility that you haven’t heard the full story and that, even if the teacher did act wrongly, extenuating circumstances may have caused a usually fair teacher to act out of character.

STRATEGIES FOR JUDGING FAVORABLY One of my favorite books, The Other Side of the Story, by Yehudit Samet, offers strategies for judging others favorably.

Here is a sampling: Stop applying a double standard.

Many of us judge others severely while we have a host of excuses for our own reprehensible behavior. For example, we grumble about other drivers who doublepark their cars and thus block a whole lane,

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but when we double-park it’s okay because our son is just jumping out of the car for one minute to pick up the dry cleaning and we didn’t know there’d be a line...

“Don’t judge your friend until you reach his place.” [Ethics of the Fathers 2:5] This is the Jewish version, dating back 1800 years, of “Don’t judge your friend until you’ve walked a mile in his moccasins.” This means that even when another person has done something culpable, consider the possibility that you would have done likewise if you had been in the same situation. Your employee or co-worker quits and takes a better paying job, showing no loyalty to the company that gave him his start. Before you say, “I wouldn’t do that!” think: “But would I do that if I had his mortgage, his debts, his size family?”

Admit that you don’t know the whole story. No court would render a judgment based on insufficient evidence, but we do it all the time. We see someone do something reprehensible, and we immediately decide, “Guilty!” What do we know of the background of the situation or that person’s circumstances or challenges?

Conjuring up the humility to admit, “I don’t know,” can save us from judgments that are severe -- and wrong.

THE PLUMBER Several years ago, we put in a new bathroom, complete with cabinets and new plumbing. A few hours after the workmen left, I turned on the new faucet. The water pressure was nil. The faucet was defective.

The next morning, I called the plumber. Yes, Rami assured me, the faucet was guaranteed. He would replace it. He couldn’t come that day, but he would come the following afternoon.

I waited all afternoon, but Rami didn’t show. At 4:30, I called his cellphone. He apologized, but said he couldn’t come.

“Why not? Where are you?” I asked, annoyed.

“I’m at home,” he answered meekly.

“Well, then, just come. You can be here in half an hour.”

Rami refused. In reply to my entreaties and accusations, he promised to come the next day.

The next day, no Rami. By now the water from the defective faucet was coming out in a trickle. It took three

minutes to fill up a cup to brush my teeth.

I was irate. What lousy service! But he was the only plumber who could make good on the guarantee. I called again. Again he promised to come and didn’t. Over the next ten days, he failed to show up seven more times. By now we were filling up basins of water from the bathtub.

During that period, I was studying The Other Side of the Story with a friend daily over the phone. One of the strategies the book teaches is to imagine extenuating circumstances that could account for a person’s acting improperly. Since we have no way of knowing what the real story is behind the person’s actions, the story we make up to judge him favorably is as likely to be true as the condemning version.

I decided to judge the plumber favorably. After all, I told myself, even the worst plumber doesn’t fail to show up ten times in a row. Something must be very wrong in his family, I concluded. Perhaps, Hashem forbid, one of his children is seriously ill. Perhaps the child is in the hospital and Rami’s wife is sitting by his bedside all day, so Rami, worried and grieving, has to stay home to take care of the other children.

Once I concocted this hypothetical story, my anger cooled. I could fill up a basin of water from the bathtub to use at the sink without fuming. I continued to call Rami every day, but the bark was gone from my voice.

One day the doorbell rang. There was Rami with the new faucet. I greeted him kindly, showed him to the bathroom, and stood there while he worked. Gently I asked him, “Is everything all right in your family?”

He shook his head. With a choked voice he told me his story: His wife of 17 years had run off with another man, leaving Rami, stunned and stricken, with their six children. A few days later, his wife realized that her paramour was alcoholic and violent. He threatened her that if she tried to leave him, he would kill her children.

After a few more beatings, she fled back to her family. While I was fretting about my faucet, Rami was home protecting the lives of his children.

You don’t have to be highly creative to imagine a story that puts someone else in a good light. You just have to want to do the mitzvah of judging others favorably. In the end, their truth may be stranger than your fiction.

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Last week, I was stunned when I went with one of my daughters to a motherdaughter dinner at her high school. We walked in greeted by a running video of each of the girls speaking about her mother. I saw my daughter on the screen and tears came to my eyes when I heard her speak: What I like most about my mother is that she’s not like other mothers that are like control freaks or bossy. I mean she makes some rules because she cares about me and wants what’s best for me, but I can talk to her about anything. And she’s like a teenager sometimes, I have a lot of fun with her and stuff. So, she’s more like a friend than a mom, and I really like that.”

A s I stood there, I realized that even though I often wonder whether I’m making the right choices as a parent, I am succeeding at the most important part of raising my children: I’m building an authentic connection with them. More than anything else, I have always set this as my first priority. I want my children to know that they are loved. All the time. No matter what. And that they can speak to me about anything and know that my love will surround them whatever they do and wherever they go.

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Am I giving this child enough space to grow?

Am I stepping back when I need to? Am I giving him the chance to correct his own mistakes and to figure out solutions to his problems? Am I giving her the trust that she needs to try new things and the space to fail without fear?

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Am I grateful for the presence of this child in my life? Am I treasuring this opportunity to be this child’s parent? Do I feel blessed to be entrusted to love and nurture this child?

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Am I really listening? Am I hearing what my child is saying without preparing my response while she is talking? Am I listening to the feelings that are behind the words? Can I also hear what is not being said but what may be the whole point of what she is trying to say?

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Am I giving this child what she really needs? Am I searching for and finding what the unique needs of this child are? Is she in an environment that is bringing out the best in her?

Does she have the tools to develop her strengths and the support to deal with her weaknesses?

Am I aware of my one, essential goal in parenting that guides hundreds of other decisions I need to make as a mother? Am I clear what my purpose is as a parent? What is my priority?

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Am I encouraging my child to be curious? Am I creating the kind of home that nurtures questions and the search for answers? Am I giving my children a glimpse of the depth and beauty of the world around them? The depth and beauty of Judaism? Am I providing the infrastructure for them to explore that beauty?

Let’s ask ourselves new questions and keep our essential goal of building authentic connections with our children in front of us at all times. This will help us accomplish one of most important parenting goals: ensuring that our children feel loved by us today.

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Triangle Shaped Onion Filled Challah ChallahFilling Ingredients:

into balls. Using a rolling pin flatten the dough into a circle making sure it is not rolled too thin. Spoon 1-2 5 large onions tablespoons of the onion mixture into the center of the 6 cloves of garlic circle. Pinch 3 sides together and form a triangle shape, 1/4 cup olive oil but leave enough of an opening in the triangle so that salt and pepper to taste the filling shows through. Place on your baking sheet with the filled side down so that it will not split open Directions: as it rises. Let the filled dough rise. Brush with beaten yolk and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Bake 30 minutes Chop the onion and garlic and sautĂŠ in the olive oil at 350 for small challah.. These may be frozen and until a golden brown. Season with salt and pepper and reheated in a warm oven for 15 minutes before serving. let cool.

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Delectable Triangle Sushi Delectable Triangle SushiSushi has become an obsession in North America; it seems never to get enough of it. It is being served in many homes instead of the traditional gefilte fish.

It has cropped up in every pizza store and take out store. Well I must say that these delectable morsels do grow on us and why not they are delicious.

Ingredients: For the Rice: 3 cup white rice (sushi rice if you can get it) Sushi rice is best but any rice that sticks (Arborio rice) will work well.

6 cups water 3 Tbp rice wine vinegar 2 Tbs sugar 1/2 tsp salt or to taste Everything Else: 6 sheets nori (dried seaweed) 3 cup julienne veggies – (carrot, cucumber, red pepper, avocado) Optional: kani, tuna or spicy tuna Soy sauce, pickled ginger, wasabi for serving Directions: Start by preparing your rice. Rinse rice in a fine mesh strainer until your water runs clear. Then add to a medium saucepan with water and bring to a boil.

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stir with a rubber spatula or fork as to not overmix. It will appear wet but will dry up as you lightly stir to release heat.

It should be sticky and completely dry once it’s ready.

In the meantime, prep your veggies by chopping them into julienne i.e. thin pieces. If they’re too bulky they won’t allow the sushi to roll well.

Now it’s time to roll: grab a thick towel and fold it over into a rectangle and place it on a flat surface. Top with plastic wrap, then with a sheet of nori.

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Slice with a sharp knife and set aside.

Alternatively you can start the Sushi in the same way Nori and a thin layer of rice but turn it over so rice will be on the outside and Nori on the inside and then proceed as before with the vegetables and then roll the same way you would the other roll. Press lightly with a plastic wrap before cutting roll into slices.

Serve immediately with pickled ginger, soy sauce and wasabi or spicy mayo recipe follows.

2 feet Pastrami Loaf This Pastrami loaf This is a show stopper. It brought out lots of laughter . Everyone was welcome to cut a piece and enjoy it with their meal. It was such a success that by the end of the evening there was not a crumb left.

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4 pickles Sliced onions Relish Bunch of olives Directions:

Slit bread in the middle and spread a layer of A long two foot submarine loaf or a French mustard over the bread then fill it with layers of baguette or bake your own long challah formed lettuce, tomatoes, cold cut of choice. Cover with the other side of the bread and place in middle out of balls for easy cutting.

Lots of your favorite cold cut such as pastrami of the table. Watch your guest’s faces and delight , corned beef or turkey salami etc. at the sight of this centerpiece.

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Special Challah On special occasions when we are serving a lot of Place the two challas braided with three on the outer guests we make a very big challah that can be cut by edge of the pan. the host/ hostess and served around the table. It makes Place the challah braided with six right in the middle for a beautiful centerpiece. over the two other braided challah.

Here are intructions for your Finally place special challah which I would the skinny braid bake for Purim or other special over the six occasions. strand challah and cover once Use your favorite 5 lb. challah again and let rise recipe and allow to rise in the for 30 minutes. usual manner. Depending on the Warm up the occasion I either use the entire oven on the batch for one big challah or 2.5lb for a smaller but sizeable challah. It is important to buy the appropriate size pan, for best results. A 5lb Challah can go in a small aluminum oval roaster while a 2.5 lb challah should go in a smaller pan. Remember the size of the pan will show in the ready product.

Divide the dough into 15 strands; 6 larger and 6 smaller the last three can be even smaller and thinner.

Then you braid the biggest 6 to form a six strand loaf.

Take another 3 strands and braid. Then take another 3 strands and braid again. Set aside.

Take three smallest strands and braid them very thinly and tightly.

Cover all the braided parts of challah with a cloth and let rise for 45 minutes When putting a plastic over the challah with a towel on top they rise faster.

To assemble: Take a small aluminum oval roaster (depending on the size of the challah as you want it to rise on the height not width).

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lowest setting 200 degrees F. Egg wash the challah with yolks only for a nicer sheen.

Sprinkle with your choice of sesame seeds or with poppy seed.

Place in the warm over for 20 minutes, then raise the oven temperature to 375 degrees and bake for 1 hour and 30 minutes again depending on the size of the challah.

Check for doneness.

Place the oven rack appropriately to make sure your challah has enough room to grow.

You might have to turn challah over in the pan and bake for another 10-15 minutes for a beautiful crust all around.

Here is the challah before and after being baked. The 4 layer challah.

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Judaism and Life on Other Planets

by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Hello… Anybody else out there?

For us here on earth it is certainly one of the most intriguing and far-reaching questions imaginable. Are we alone in the cosmos or are there others – perhaps like us or perhaps totally different – somewhere in the universe?

And for those of us who believe the account of creation as recorded in the Torah, are the opening words – “In the beginning Hashem created the heavens and the earth” – meant as full disclosure of the creation of life by the Almighty or is this merely the information granted to earthlings as necessary for our relationship with Hashem but not purporting to reveal other manifestations of divine power and creativity?

In short, can religious Jews believe in the possibility of alien life?

The question which until now was purely theoretical in nature may just have assumed forceful relevance in light of this week’s world shaking announcement

by NASA. To their great amazement astronomers have just found seven Earthsize planets which seem suitable for life.

Life, they have now concluded, may have evolved on at least three planets in a newly discovered solar system just 39 light years from Earth. Astronomers have detected no less than seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting a cool dwarf star known as TRAPPIST-1.The six inner planets lie in a temperate zone where surface temperatures range from zero to 100C. Of these, at least three are thought to be capable of having oceans, increasing the likelihood of life. No other star system known contains such a large number of Earth-sized and probably rocky planets.

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Copperwheat, from Liverpool John Moores University, who co-led the international team, said: “The discovery of multiple rocky planets with surface temperatures which allow for liquid water make this amazing system an exciting future target in the search for life.”

According to Judaism, is this in the realm of possibility? Can we conceive of other worlds whose inhabitants also share a special relationship with Hashem? And from the sublime to the ridiculous, will these aliens from outer space be Jews, observe Torah laws, build synagogues and places of worship, and collect money for charitable purposes?

If from an egotistical perspective we consider human kind the only ones worthy of Hashem’s special attention we might readily conclude that “this is all there is.” And that is what many rabbinic sages believed. What is fascinating however is that a significant body of opinion in traditional sources not only validates the

NASA’s earth-shattering announcement has many Jews asking: Does Judaism entertain the possibility of alien life? possibility for alien life on other planets but actually finds biblical and midrashic confirmation for this view, even as it suggests that belief in an all-powerful Hashem forbids placing any limitations on the extent of his creative powers.

Dr. David Weintraub, professor of astronomy at Vanderbilt University and the author of Religions and Extraterrestrial Life: How Will We Deal With It?, affirms that Judaism is spiritually prepared for little green men. “Judaism accepts the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Jewish theology may actually require a belief in extraterrestrials since there are no limits on the power of the creator. Thus, for Jews to say that no life beyond the Earth could possibly exist would be unacceptable, as such an idea would appear to place shackles on Hashem’s creative power… the universe belongs to Hashem and Hashem can do what Hashem wishes to do with the universe.”

Going back many centuries, the great Jewish philosopher Hasdai Crescas (1340-1411), in his classic work Ohr Hashem, wrote an entire chapter in which he maintained that the possibility of life on other planets is not in conflict with Jewish belief. Moreover, Torah sources in fact offer support for them. He invoked the words of Psalm 19:2: “The heavens declare the glory of Hashem” – the rich cosmic landscape with all of its wonders continues to impress us with the infinite

possibilities of Hashem’s creations.

As further evidence for the possibility of extraterrestrial life, Crescas mentions the Talmudic teaching that “Hashem flies through 18,000 worlds” [Babylonian Talmud Avoda Zara 3B]. Furthermore, Psalm 145:13’s statement that “Your kingdom is a kingdom spanning all olamim (worlds)” could imply the existence of extraterrestrial life, since if there were no existence on these other worlds, what kind of kingdom would Hashem have?

Another biblical allusion to alien life are the words in the song of Debora in the book of Judges: “Curse Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse bitterly its inhabitants´[5:23] In his book Sefer HaBrit (‘Book of the Covenant’), Rabbi Pinchas Eliyahu Horowitz, (18th century ) quotes as his authority a clear Talmud reference –the statement that contends that Meroz is an inhabited planet somewhere in outer space. Furthermore, he affirms emphatically that Hashem created an infinite number of worlds, of physical, spiritual and inter-dimensional nature. This view is upheld by the Ari’zal (Rabbi Yitzchak Luria), who also spoke of an ‘infinite number of spiritual worlds’.

Speaking of the verse (Song of Songs 6:8), “Worlds without number,” the Zohar, the classic masterwork of Kabalah, Jewish mysticism, states: “The stars certainly are

without number. But each star is called a separate world. These are the worlds without number.”

What was left unsaid by the sages willing to accept the possibility of life on other planets was a further description of what these beings are like, what relationship they have to the Almighty, by which laws if any they are governed, in what “image” they were created, and most fundamental of all whether they share with us free will, the capacity for independent choice, which we as humans have been granted and which allows us the descriptive of being created “in the image of Hashem.”

We simply do not know the answers to these questions. But in terms of our openness to the questions and our willingness to pursue them we might well ponder the response of the Lubavitcher Rebbi to Dr. Velvl Greene, a prominent microbiologist who years ago was enlisted

by NASA in their project to determine if there is life on Mars. Dr. Greene asked the Rebbe privately if this was something he should be doing. The Rebbe replied, “Dr. Greene, look for life on Mars! And if you don’t find it there, look somewhere else in the universe for it. Because for you to sit here and say there is no life outside of planet Earth is to put limitations on the Creator, and that is not something any of His creatures can do!”

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