Parsha Pearls
מִדְבַר־שֶקֶר תִרְ חָּק... [שמות כג:ז]
Distance yourself from a lie...[Shemos 23:7]
The Chofetz Chaim in his sefer Sefas Tamim (Ch. 7) writes about the incredible benefit of having the middah of temimus (speaking truthfully and without deception):
“Once it happened that he had to travel to a city whose name was Kushta. The residents of that city would never lie, and as a consequence, nobody died in that city before reaching an old age after having lived a fulfilling life...The point of that story is that anybody who is especially careful in this middah of temimus will bond during his lifetime to the Living G-d who is the source of truth, and consequently, up until this person reaches an old age, after having lived a satisfying life, the Angel of Death will have no power over him.”
