Dan L'kaf Zechut- Judging others favorably. To judge others favorably means that no matter what someone else does, you should judge them with kindness.

Vayikra 19:15 says: "You should not commit a distortion of justice. You should not favor the poor, nor honor the great. With righteousness you should judge your fellow."

Section 1: Giving Others the Benefit of the Doubt

This quote says that when you want to decide if another person is good or bad, guilty or innocent, you shouldn't decide it based on how they are as people or what their lives are like.

Rabbi Dovid Kronglass said: "If their is true love between two friends, it will come automatically... They should have a positive outlook. There is a love between two friends that judge each favorably.

This says that if you do judge your friends with kindness, that means there is a true love found there and that this love will come automatically when you judge favorably.

Rambam says: "'Judge every person favorably'- This refers to someone whom you do not know... If you see him doing something or saying something that could be interpreted in two ways, one good and one bad, you should give him the benefit of the doubt and assume the action was good."

Section 2: The Reputation of the Individual Matters

This states that if someone you don't know is either a good person or a bad person, and they do something that could be either good or bad, you should think what they did was good.