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It is ever okay to fauve, we call god, god of hammed, the god of truth, the bible clear is worth to be a dame to opposite ever okay to tell a little a white lie. There have to be a counter veiling value which would over supersede the value to tell the truth. The Talmud puts it this way, if it an ugly bride says to you how do I look? What do you say? One Rabbi whose opinion was defeated thought you should tell you the truth. Now from the Torah portion that we had in the read in that week that I am that giving making this video part of the Aira which as many wonderful story on it, we had an example how god helps us figure this out. God sends an angle to tell Abraham and Sarah that they going to have a baby. Now there are both in 90s and their both, Sarah is beyond the year of being to have a baby so when the angel says to her you are going to have a baby, she says I am too old and my husband is too old. Now in the next scene Abraham says okay what did Sarah say? Now god basically have a choice of telling the truth on which case it is cause this harmony it would be anti Shalom bait, anti domestic harmony or could tell a little fib. So god basically told a little fib by omission by saying Sarah said she is too old, she is too old. Did not say that she also said he is too old. So we learned that in certain situation where peace is the issue it is okay to tell a little white lie but those are the exception and in general [Foreign language] god is the god of truth, wisdom begins with truth we need to tell the truth nothing but the truth but there are certain situation in life like in this one where the obvious issue of peace over supersedes that of truth. As well there are a lot of peace to throw in here, I saw actually Primestodmen even Angelica of preacher I thought is this interesting, questions was how did god get Sarah and Abraham to be able to have babies. Now you can say this is a miracle but is there anything psychological at work here? Torah says that god changes their name, first there was a Serine changes to a Sarah and then it was Avram and changed it to Abraham. Sarah means a princess and Abraham means to father of nations and so what this preacher was saying was that by hearing there the father of the nations and princess enough the self talk, the talk they did it themselves was able to changes themselves enough to be able to be in a place where they could able to fulfill there goals and there desires and there dreams. And that was a little sermon on about how we need to our self to our positively to ourselves and not negatively and another issue but very interesting to this week Torah portion.