When, If Ever, Is It Permitted to Lie? (3)

For reasons of humility, privacy and so as not to harm another.  These are, according to Telushkin, the only times that a religious scholar (and by extension, all of us), are permitted to bend the truth.  Again, these, as seemingly all of his discussions, are about our relationship to ‘the other.’   As David Mamet has said, “Tell the truth, it’s the easiest story to remember.”