The Kotzker Rebbe says; “What was the sin of the spies? They
spoke the truth (about what they saw. How is speaking truth considered a
sin)?
However, ‘truth’ does not just mean speaking what you see. That would
simply be ‘not lying’.
‘Truth’ (in a religious sense) means
that if one understands what it is that G-d wants, then one must exhaust oneself to find
a genuinely truthful way of expressing (or explaining) G-d’s word.”[1]
There is no value in promoting
G-d’s agenda, as noble as it may be, through holding back on the truth or suppressing
or censoring it.
Rather one needs to ‘exhaust oneself’ to find a way to reconcile
G-d’s will with absolute unadulterated truth and with substantive facts as we
know it.
Truth is its own witness
and any tampering with it, even to fulfil a righteous religious agenda, is no
longer considered ‘religious’.
This is why Kotzker truth
is so hard to attain. -Because it is not always easy to reconcile G-d’s truth
with ours.
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