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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The Gemara brings proof
from the bros of Yosef lying to Yosef that one is permitted to lie for peace. They
invented a fictitious command issued from YaAkov before his demise, that the
bros should be forgiven by Yosef.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Can it be that in
circumstances where they should be asking for Mechila and doing their utmost to
mollify him, they are permitted to lie in order to make peace?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>And we can&#8217;t
propose that they already did the max to gain his forgiveness but Yosef had
stubbornly refused to forgive, because had that been the case, there would have
been no consequences later with the martyrs. When an aggressor has been through
all the steps and brought the Shura of friends he need do no more.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Would you accept the
possibility that there was a misunderstanding and that Yosef thought he had let
them know that he had not forgiven them and that they at the same time thought
that their attempts to appease Yosef had been accepted?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>meir<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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