Seeing Only the Good

Rav Yitzchok was once in Alik. While he stood wrapped in his tallis and crowned with his tefillin, one of his attendants entered and began to complain about someone else's misconduct and misdeeds. The Tzaddik grew very upset. He grasped the door handle and said to his gabbai, "You have been my attendant in this house for several years already. Don't you know by now that before a person even grasps the kolimka, the handle of my door, I can already sense everything that person has done since the day he was born? What can I do?"

He continued, "It says of Hashem in Bamidbar (23:21) that He sees no iniquity or wrongdoing in Yaakov. Hashem does not look at the evil that Bnei Yisroel do, and if Hashem does not, how can I? My way and custom is that I do not look at the negative side of people, only at their positive side. If I did see their negative sides, I would never let anyone cross my threshold and enter through this door to see me."

When Rav Yitzchok left Berditchev to take over the leadership as the Neshchizer Rebbe, he davened to Hashem, and he succeeded in achieving that he would never see the negative side of a person, only the positive side.