The Real Truth - Rabbi Daniel Kalish

loses an aveda they have an item that gets lost and it is found in order to reclaim it they must bring a simmon they must say something about the item that they recognize in order to get their item returned to them however if the person's an ish ms one whoever lies then the person's a letter just say show me the item and if they recognize it as theirs we return it to them what's called two i recognize it it's an item i just know it's mine return it to me and the person can be returned between us and the question is a person who lies why don't you turn it if they say it's theirs and one would think the answer is that maybe they're lying but let's say they pass a lie detector test and they're clearly not lying assuming eye detector tests really prove it and we know they're not lying cannot return it to a lawyer and rashi and gittin teaches us but the real reason is that since they lie they have no twisting not they are lying when they say it's theirs they don't know if it's theirs since they're dishonest they don't know if it's theirs [Music] the assad rashi and kitten is teaching us is that a liar doesn't fool others a lawyer loses a sense of truth hazal saying the owner of a bad day is even his truths are not believed i always thought that shout was like the boy who cried wolf even when he speaks the truth others won't believe him because they're used to him lying but according to this there's a deeper shot even when he means to tell the truth he passes a lie detector test we know 100 he needs to tell the truth one should not believe him the liars lose the sense of the truth they don't know themselves the truth all of us are gifted hashem with the knack to sense the truth one of the most important attributes we have in our life a sense of what is true and what's not true the capacity to call out what's right what's wrong when one lies they lose that sense of truth they can do immense damage that they themselves will be less aware of what's true and what's not true so all of us should be zakah to protect our midaze our capacity for recognizing the truth by being distanced to retain our immense power to know what's true and what's not [Music]