Reply To: Halacha for the masses

Lol touche LU.

Yes I wanted to give a real life example but it was too personal.

So then I thought of another and maybe better real life example but the details are so specific that someone could easily figure out the person by Googling. The story wouldn’t make sense if I was vague on the details.

Without anything close to compare, I made up this example which I agree isn’t a strong or accurate mashal.

… On another note, how common is it to find halacha books on how and when to be dishonest? Lying under certain circumstances is a really hard halacha for me.

I don’t want to say specifically why I’m bringing this up now but it’s important. I have mixed feelings about lying. I don’t want to do it. Yet I see how when someone else lies to spare another person’s present feelings, it may give the person hope that one day freedom will come.

In that book about the Chabad Rebbe by Joseph Telushkin, Telushkin talks about how the Rebbe never told his mother that his brother died. For the rest of her life the Rebbe reportedly fabricated letters and even had someone call her long-distance to keep up the story that the brother was still living.

That is such a touchy situation.

Way too specific to advise individuals whose sibling, G-d forbid, passes away, on whether or not to tell one’s mother/father.