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Is it ever permitted to lie?

by Rabbi Naftali Silberberg

  

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According to Halachah it is permitted to "bend the truth" in order to perserve family harmony. G-d demonstrated this1 when He told Abraham "Why is it that Sarah laughed, saying, 'Shall I in truth bear a child, though I have aged?'" Actually, Sarah said,2 "After I have withered shall I again have delicate skin? And my husband is old!"

Footnotes

  • 1. Genesis 18:13.
  • 2. Genesis 18:12.
TAGS: lie, fib

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