Friday, January 18, 2008

When one may lie

One may declare a vow to murderers to support his claim that the produce they seek to seize from him is terumah and hence forbidden to a non-Kohen, even though in truth it is not terumah.

This Mishna (Nedarim 27b) refers to Jewish robbers, who will kill people to steal their property but how nonetheless observe other laws of the Torah!

2 comments:

boristech said...

fascinating. thank you for sharing.

Mark Kerzner said...

Thank you for leaving a comment - this is the first on the blog!