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Deceitful Practices: Difference between revisions

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===Offering Presents===
===Offering Presents===
# One should not offer someone gifts knowing that he isn't going to take them because it is deceitful.<ref>Shulchan Aruch CM 228:6</ref>
# One should not offer someone gifts knowing that he isn't going to take them because it is deceitful.<ref>Shulchan Aruch CM 228:6</ref>
# When giving a gift it isn't considered deceitful to give them something of a lower quality even though they will assume it is a better quality.<ref>Tur 117:1 quotes a dispute whether or not the issue of genivat daat applies to a present. Rama YD 117:1 and Shach YD 117 write that we hold that there is only a prohibition of genivat daat when selling something for one quality and they assume it is better than it is. However, when giving a gift even though they'll assume it is a better quality than it is that isn't genivat daat.</ref>
===Letting Someone Fool Themselves===
===Letting Someone Fool Themselves===
# If someone makes an assumption that a rational person wouldn't make one doesn't need to tell them otherwise since they deceived themselves. For example, Mar Zutra was leaving his city and he met two rabbis. He assumed that they were coming to greet him and so he thanked them very much for coming. In fact they were traveling to that city anyway and weren't planning on going to greet Mar Zutra. Therefore, the gemara concludes that they didn't need to tell him that in fact they didn't come to greet him. Mar Zutra fooled himself and it wasn't their actions that were deceitful.<ref>Gemara Chullin 94b, Shulchan Aruch CM 228:6</ref>
# If someone makes an assumption that a rational person wouldn't make one doesn't need to tell them otherwise since they deceived themselves. For example, Mar Zutra was leaving his city and he met two rabbis. He assumed that they were coming to greet him and so he thanked them very much for coming. In fact they were traveling to that city anyway and weren't planning on going to greet Mar Zutra. Therefore, the gemara concludes that they didn't need to tell him that in fact they didn't come to greet him. Mar Zutra fooled himself and it wasn't their actions that were deceitful.<ref>Gemara Chullin 94b, Shulchan Aruch CM 228:6</ref>