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The People You Trust Are the People You Become

There is a strange law in the Rambam that says you can trust a person on Shabbos whom you would never trust on a Tuesday. Not because he changed. Not because he repented. Because something about the day itself reaches into the part of him that is still whole. And if that is true about time, what does it say about us --- about who we really are, underneath all the noise?

Maaser 10-12Tuesday, June 16, 2026

The People You Trust Are the People You Become

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About This Talk

These three chapters reveal that trust is not a binary verdict on another person's character but a living system that responds to context, relationship, and spiritual environment --- and that the Torah's framework for managing uncertainty in tithes is really a blueprint for how a holy community navigates the irreducible gap between a person's inner essence and their outer conduct.

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