IT HAPPENED TOMORROW Criticism

By Guido Vitale

“In Pirkei Avot we are taught, Al Tadun Et Chaveircha Ad Shetagia Limkomo, ‘Don’t judge others until you come to their place’ – which means we should always appreciate the pressures, the influences, the extenuating circumstances in the lives of others. Those very people, whom we wish to criticise, might very well be, far more righteous than we are.” (rav Ephraim Mirvis, Chief Rabbi of Commonwealth)