The Laws of Being a Mentch Honesty Rabbi Leiby Burnham 5 12 16

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Leiby Burnham’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

know really nobody looked it up but you know one hand goes up another hand goes off you know people see all right before you know I leaked half the congregation has their hand up I'm going to admit to the rabbi you know so the rabbi says okay he says there is no Leviticus 3812 however what I do want to talk about is Leviticus 1911 which says you shall not lie so that is our conversation today lie so that is our conversation today honesty before we start I want to give you a few quotes about honesty number one F Emma Hubbard used to say honesty pays but it doesn't seem to pay enough for many people and then Winston Churchill said men occasionally stumble over the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry up as if nothing had happened and last but not least had happened and last but not least austin O'Malley said those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color black okay I want to ask you a question where is at hand who here feels so you should always be honest alrighty we've got good work for today then I think it starting to happen to me when I was in Social Work school I was in my final semester and they require every

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1. 0:30know really nobody looked it up but you know one hand goes up another hand goes…
2. 5:11tastes like Earth is that what you're supposed to do absolutely not we're chains what I…
3. 10:23interesting and sort of number one we said the Torah didn't say do not lie sit…
4. 15:32care of that that's their worst can you do it can you give me this price…
5. 20:46you're allowed to change the truth for the sake of peace of peace now by the…
6. 26:00conveniently turned off his phone the battery ran out and he goes to the bar and…
7. 31:11of attitude she wouldn't divorce to it anyway that does not work well the green beans…
8. 36:23that say I always say it like it is and when people tell me that when…
9. 41:35wonderful she's still alive she's so charismatic all right how do we rule doing rule like…
10. 46:45moment about the virtues of honesty and then let's try to understand let's try to understand…

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