A Bathroom Lie: Volume 5, Issue 39, Va'eschanan

August 9, 2025; 15 Av, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara

QUESTION: After a long drive with no restroom in sight, I entered a Dunkin Donuts off the highway to buy a drink and to use the restroom. The bathroom was blocked with a sign that said, “Restroom is Out of Order.” When this sign is on display, it is often not the truth. The restroom is working, but for one reason or another, the management does not want customers to use it (e.g. it hasn’t been cleaned recently). May an employee put out such a sign if his employer asks him to do so? In addition, which is worse – putting out the sign (lying through the written word) or telling the customer (lying through the spoken word) that the restroom is out of order?...

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The Truth About Feet: Volume 5, Issue 38, Devarim

August 2, 2025; 8 Av, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara

QUESTION: I am a podiatrist, and I have been approached by a software salesman in the podiatrist industry who is promoting a software package that is designed to recommend different treatment protocols for different foot ailments. When I reviewed what the software recommended for each ailment, it became clear to me that the treatment plans were designed primarily to maximize the number of doctor visits and treatments. This appears to have been done to maximize the amount of money the client / insurance company can be billed for rather than to provide the optimal patient care...

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Psychoanalysis and the Rebbe: Volume 5, Issue 37, Matos-Masei

July 26, 2025; 1 Av, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara

The Rebbe Rashab of Chabad was known as a man of complete Emes (truth), earning the profound respect of the great Rav Chaim Soloveitchik ZT”L. His teaching on integrity was clear and uncompromising: "Truth is the middle path. An inclination to the right - to be overly stringent with oneself and find faults with oneself that are not really there; or an inclination to the left - to be overly lenient with oneself, rationalizing one’s faults and being overly lenient and ignoring the demands of Avodas Hashem (service to Hashem) out of self-love — both of the above are pathways of falsehood..."

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