The Power of a Smile - Rabbi Eliezer Zeytouneh

just how big is the person have to do in order for the recipient to feel better just listen to the story when I was 18 I was hired by a camp to be a director to plan all types of activities in order to imbue the children with the importance of being kind and altruistic so I remember the first day all the children sat down on the floor and I said boys we're gonna do a great lesson today and the boys were wandering themselves what exactly is disgusted are we gonna feed the poor are we gonna help elderly people across the street what exactly is this man talking about I said lined up behind me and you're going to see so everybody lined up behind me and as I was about to exit the door I said now here's the rule we're going to go around the block and everybody that you'll see I want you to smile and I want you to say hello and you're gonna see just how many people smile back at you and all the boys are saying come on rabbi I mean really is it what are you talking about you think that that's gonna make someone smile I said just watch and sure enough we went around the block and all types of people from all nationalities we're looking at it and as we saw them we smiled and we said hello and one by one without film every single one of those people smiled back you know the pursue Qamishli pursuing which their rights come I'm appointing the PI name can live I dam dam and water write a face it's like a reflection a face is like a mirror when you smile at the water than what it smiles back at you when you smile at a mirror the mirror smiles back to you by the way if you smile and remember and it doesn't smile back at you you gotta go to the nearest hospital that's the way a person is a person works and that way is reflective if you're a kind person they'll respond in kind if you smile at someone they'll smile in kind by the way you know review so cilantro once said it was the Daisley amigo Nayeem and he came he greeted some with a smile and the person ignored him and said I don't understand don't you understand that your face is that it shoots out a beam it doesn't matter what you're thinking in your heart it doesn't matter what concerns are bothering you when you come to someone you gotta come with a smile so let's walk around and it doesn't make a difference what is interfering in our life what concerns we have what cares we have when you see that person in front of you smile and watch that that person's gonna smile back you don't need to have tremendous said I could you don't need to be doing tremendous feats you want to have an impact on a person all you got to do is smile this is rabbi Z Tony and let's see just how high your head bounces [Music] you [Applause]