Who is Honest? - Rabbi Shlomo Katz

always under the assumption that a holy person is someone that always does the right thing no matter what they know already they'll always do something holy the holy visionary one time called interesting and said you want to learn who a real honest human being is so they all said of course rabbit teach us said bring me someone from the street just bring him inside right now and they found the yiddler in the streets of vision and they brought him to the wrishner and there said let me ask you a question if you see a hundred hundred rubles falling out of my pocket and you're walking behind me what would you do with it so this yiddler said oh i'd find it and i give it right back to you so the rabbit said thank you very much bring in someone else he's just telling me what i want to hear they ask another person that comes inside the devil says let me ask you a question 100 rubles fall out of my pocket you're standing behind me what would you do with it so this hitler says well to be honest with you rabbi i'd keep it and i just walk away so that says thank you very much he leaves and they say ah what a thief the rabbit calls in another person they pick up another person from the street and again the story was if a hundred rubles fell out of my pocket and you were standing right behind me what would you do with it and the idler turned to the lever and said i'm not sure it depends what mood i'll be in and the rabbit said ah finally an honest human being a human being that understands that god gave us free choice that every moment we have we could be feeling anything in the world how do i know how i'm going to feel i hope i'll be feeling good i hope i want to do the right thing i hope i won't want to do the wrong thing but an honest human being knows that every single given moment everything in the world is on a scale and it's up to our choices at that moment to tilt the scales to the right place depending on how we're feeling at that moment you