Someone showed me a very interesting optical exercise a few months back. It’s a black-and-white picture of a person’s face. The face is complete except for the nose which is represented instead by three small dots.
You stare at the 3 dots in the picture for 60 seconds and then look away at the ceiling or a blank wall. What happens is that you’ll see the entire face optically reproduced on the wall or ceiling.
The idea is that by focusing on just these 3 dots in the center of the face the entire picture gets completely mentally recorded without us even being aware of it.
Applied to life:
A girl comes over not dressed according to halachah. She comes from a religious home but has chosen to leave the path of her parents. You’re making a wedding in one week and you’d like to invite her to share in your simchah. You describe the crowd that will be there and ask that she come dressed appropriately. You make accompanying motions with your hands — skirt till here shirt till here sleeves till there. She smiles and accepts. Because in your heart you’re not putting her down. You actually love her. You don’t focus on her jeans and the way she’s dressed. You focus on the point. The point of pintele Yid the point in the middle of the soul. The essence.
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