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bmyer
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I heard a great vort that can be related here as well imho.
The mishnah says “hevey dan es kol haadam l’kaf zechus” which translates to “you should judge all man favourably.”
The question is why does it say haadam “the” man it seems extra?

The beautiful answer is that you should read it as “if you judge the [whole] man it will be favourably.
Meaning…if you saw the WHOLE “person” ( as in his “pekeleh” / life story / motivations etc… ) it would be CLEAR why you shouldn’t judge him.
(It’s much better in hebrew but I can’t type it…sorry)
I think you could apply a similar hashkafah here because we can’t see the full picture by anyone or ourselves but if we did…