September 21, 2024; 18 Elul, 5784 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara
QUESTION: We are making a birthday party for my mother, who Bli Ayin Harah is in her mid-nineties. We want to invite all of her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and all of their spouses. However, my mother is from the old country and does not like us to spend money on her. She is comfortable with us paying for the party food, but we know that she will likely get agitated if she knows that we also spent money on a hall which we will need to fit all of the guests. Can we lie about the hall and say that we rented it for free to avoid agitating her?...