[Avodah] When NOT to Lie for Peace

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From: "Meir Rabi" _meirabi at optusnet.com.au_ (mailto:meirabi at optusnet.com.au) 

>>Why  are Yosef's brothers praised for not being able to speak to him
BeShalom,? Is  it not a Mitzvah to even lie in order to make and promote
peace?  <<
 

Meir Rabi
 
>>>>>
They believed he was a major sinner (mored  bemalchus -- if Yakov is a melech 
-- plotting to usurp his father's and  brothers' place -- re his dream of his 
father and brothers bowing to him -- OR  -- eating ever min hachai -- OR -- 
other?).  To smile at a sinner and  pretend everything's fine is not darkei 
sholom but hypocrisy.  (Maybe we  should learn from the brothers that chanifa to 
non-O rabbis is not the right  thing to do.)
 
--Toby Katz
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