An Offer You Can't Refuse?: Volume 6, Issue 14, Beshalach

January 31, 2026; 13 Shevat, 5786 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara

Rav Yechezkel Levenstein (“Reb Chatzkel”) ZT”L maintains that developing a commitment to truth is attainable, though it requires deliberate effort to overcome inclinations toward falsehood. The Midrash (Bereishis Rabbah 8:5) explains this concept through an account of a debate that occurred during the creation of the world:

Chessed (the attribute of kindness) argued that man should be created, because he would be a creature that does Chessed. Emes (the attribute of truth) differed, saying that man was full of falsehood...

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