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size=2>From: "Richard Wolpoe" <A
href="mailto:rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com">rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com</A><BR><BR>>>
1. Who gave Yaakov permission to "lie"<BR> 2. Who gave Eliezer
permission to use Nichush to find a wife for<BR> Yitzchak?
<BR><BR>The common answer is the hora'as hsa'ah of a navi...
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size=2>>>>><BR>The common answer is correct, as RRW went on to
explain (how both Rivka's and Eliezer's actions were based on nevuah) but
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<DIV>!. Yakov didn't technically lie -- even when deceiving his father for a
halachically correct reason, he was careful not to technically utter a falsehood
-- and so he said, "Anochi...(slight pause)...Esav bechorecha." I am I,
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<DIV>2. The sign Eliezer chose wasn't really nichush because it was a sign
that would reveal the midos of the girl and was directly relevant to his search.
Had he said, "If a girl comes out wearing a blue dress, that will be the
sign," the question would have greater force. As it stands, it isn't that
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