<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style=""><div>What about dan l'chaf z'chus? Assume it's a goy. <br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>This past shabbat I heard a shiur on dan l'chaf z'chus where they basically said:<br>1) If it is a person who is known to be a tzaddik, you obviously assume that whatever they were doing was good, no matter how crazy it may seem<br>
2) If it is a person who is known to be a rasha, vice versa<br>3) If it is someone who you don't know, assume the best, but you don't have to jump through ridiculous hoops - "if it smells like a fish..."<br>
<br>If you are in Israel, assuming it's a goy is probably over the top. Similarly, in the case I had, where they were asking directions to a Conservative building, it would be hard to make that big of a jump.<br><br>~Liron<br>