GEN1599 Smile to your fellow man. Before he died, Yaakov blessed the tribe of Yehuda that their land would be so fertile that the vineyards would produce an abundance of wine and the sheep grazing on the land would produce an abundance of milk. (Rashi).   The Talmud Ketubot 111b states that [this verse] can be read (in the Hebrew) as “When one shows his teeth (in a smile) to his fellow man, it is better than giving him milk to drink.”   How highly we would consider a man who gave drinks of milk to passersby everyday.   When a benefactor of mankind!   A drink of milk provides essential nourishment and becomes part of all that the recipient does thereafter.   Yet this man does less than one who smiles at his fellow man.   The smile enters the recipient’s mind and body, and stimulates all the glands to produce their secretions in the most beneficial proportions.  Every one of the thousands of intricate processes of physical function is optimally motivated (Rabbi Avigdor Miller in Sing, You Righteous, p. 294). PLYN 126-7