What does this mean: "Greet everyone with a friendly countenance" and is this something we all should do? In the Pirkei Avot, the holy Jewish book "Our Ancestors" it says this is something we all need to do. Can this change your world and everyone's world you greet? A simple smile as you pass someone by, a twinkle from your eye and into theirs, getting a twinkle back, a greetings of goodness with electricity going both ways.
Do you have all your teeth? Are your teeth white? Are they clean? Does a dentist clean them and give them a fluoride treatment once every six months? If so, then you have beautiful teeth, with no reason not to smile.
Are there people you like and who you want to greet happily, are there people you do not know and can also greet happily? It takes chutzpah which in Yiddish means "nerve" to be the friendliest person in the world. Do you dare to have the nerve to be friendly?
If you are female, it would look pretty strange to overdo greeting the male sex, instead to greet women, women you know or do not know, we are from a sisterhood, a Women To Women International Sisterhood. Women altogether who fight for the rights of all Women. If we smile at men the men use this as a reason to harass us, better to know your distance.
Better to merge with the feminine in one's environment so the men cannot say you provoked them into sexual harassment or to be stalked by your smile and verbal greeting to them and being so-called provocative with what clothes you wear or do not wear.
It would indeed be a lovely world if everyone in the world has the potential of being friendly and amiable with everyone they meet.
Know your constant companion is The Lord, and in this way, no matter who you are able to greet or not to greet, The Lord is there for you and will stay with you as long as you want Him.
To greet Him first and to be sated.
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