Orchos Chaim of the Rosh #129 Don't Lie Even When You Are Allowed To

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good afternoon everyone we are closing in on the completion of the time of the rush in the first edition they're actually another uh 23 oysters that are at the end of the rush that are a different mahadura but we're closing in on the first mahadura and we're going to try to finish it tomorrow and tomorrow will be the last shear on the time of the rush before tish above actually so we'll continue it in the monday after tishb so we're going to learn it today tomorrow and then we'll continue bezos hashem after tish above sifkatan davar do not emit from your mouth a false word the khazav and untruthfulness be faithful and truthful to everyone even a guy so he's saying don't lie question but in ice gimmo the russia already said distance yourself from falsehood so what is the rush adding by saying we already know you have to stay away from lying this says with goldberg is the question of robichasco sarna says that what the rush means is even in a situation where you're allowed to lie motherless even in a situation where you'll add a lie you're only allowed to be meshana you'll have to deviate but you can't say explicit falsehood and therefore when yaakov told yitzchak meaning i am i and even in a situation where you allowed to be meshana but you have to say it in a way where it's not an outright lie where it could mean one of two things and a smuchem to this a substa a support for this idea is that your ladder lie so that your friend is not embarrassed and the sever hasidam says when you lie you should try to change so it's not outright checker we find by ezra he said where ezra included himself even though he didn't he didn't marry a gentile woman because call you saw a raven zelaza so even when a person is allowed to lie they should do it in such a way where to minimize the falsehood of it this the perish avraham on the rush explains that the rush doesn't say don't speak shecker because of but rather al toitseem that your mouth literally cannot say falsehood because you're so accustomed to speaking the truth that it's you're so attuned to speaking the truth and that comes from a lot of working on oneself to make sure that everything one says is absolutely truthful now the gemara marker says david came and narrowed the torah down to eleven principles and one of them is vediver ms bovava what's an example of the dover emma like safra where he wanted to sell an article and somebody came to him when he was saying shema so he said you want to buy i want to buy it for a thousand dollars he thought that rip sofa didn't want to sell it because it wasn't answering so after he finished shema he said give it to me for ten thousand and rub sofa gave it to him for the original price because in his mind he had already agreed to the original price and when it says lo rogal al-ashinai who he was afraid to lie he said of kim satya he didn't want to lie because he was afraid his father would catch him but his mother forced him up and she said allah if your father curses the curse will be on me surah goldberg asks once we know the level of ms of rab safra then not only can you not lie with your mouth you can't even lie in your thoughts that it if somebody agreed to a certain price in their mind originally so then there they should uh be loyal to that price that they saved in their mind so then what are we adding by saying oh and jakob avino didn't want to lie that's an outright lie says of goldberg based on the way we've explained the rash we could say as follows that yaakov had no choice because his mother said you have to go take the braches but yaakov said to his mother like this even if i tell my father that i'm asaf but i can't say straight out i am asap i have to say it in a way where i'm saying something that's not an outright lie i am i and asap is your firstborn and maybe if i save it that way i won't be i won't be successful in stealing the bronchis and therefore yaakov said to his mother if i could only say it in this convoluted way maybe my father will catch me and ruth to that says don't worry the curse will be on me so we see an added magic of ms that yaakov avinu even in a situation where he had to lie he was so trained in the midas ms that he couldn't bring himself to do it outright so it comes out the two levels that we're saying in the rush between ice gimme and oyster ice gimmel is don't lie but meaning even in your heart even in your mind and always contest is adding al-toitsim that's the madrid of yakov where he couldn't say sheker he couldn't bring himself to say shakka even when he needed to and he had to do it in this quasi way um in a situation where he did it in los angeles now rabbi new york writes in the shari tribunchar gimel that somebody who tricks his friend by saying you know i did you a favor i spoke to the boss about you i put in a good word for you and you didn't do it in a way it's worse than stealing actually robbing says to the israel worse to tell somebody you did them a favor and you didn't or you did them or you did something good for them and you didn't then to steal from a guy because speaking falsehood is a great breach in the get there of ms because ms rabbino yana says and let's just take a moment to contemplate that line of rabbenu which means of all of the corruption of character a lack of ms is the most basic and fundamental and corrosive because ms is me soyde hanefesh let's think about that why is ms the foundation of the soul because what is the soul the soul is alaikami and what is god's signature homura characteristic which means the fabric of the soul the makeup of the soul the peace of god is the meda of ms so worse than stealing from a guy is saying yeah i i helped you out you don't realize what kind of good word i put in for you you never spoke to the guy that's even worse than stealing so by being careful in the guidelines of ms you are actually supporting and upholding the makeup and the essence of the of the soul of of man okay this completes tomorrow with hashem's help we're going to do ice cuff lamin and always which will be the end of the orchestra of the rush and then after tish above we will try to uh finish up the last 23 uh oysters of what is known as another madura of the arches of the rush which is uh generally reserved for shabbos so wishing you all a great day we'll see you all tomorrow you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com