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Where is it written, “You see in others what you see in the mirror.”?

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I believe what you are referring to is the Talmudic passage “Kol HaPosel B’moomo Posel” – “Anyone who disqualifies others, disqualifies them with his own flaw (Kiddushin 70b). Often when one renders someone else unfit/imperfect (e.g. having shortcomings) it is indicative that the one passing judgment himself possesses those same flaws.

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Rabbi Zvi Solomon

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