Q&A: Elections
Elections
Question
Honorable Rabbi, hello,
Is it permissible to lie to people who ask me what I voted in the elections because of the evil eye?
Thank you
Answer
It is preferable not to lie, but rather to keep silent. Tell them it’s none of their business.
Discussion on Answer
If your children study in Haredi institutions and you work at the mikveh, maybe you should vote for the party that takes care of funding the institutions and the mikveh? The Minister of Finance won’t transfer budgets without political pressure 🙂
Best regards, Yekutiel Shneur Zehavi
If the institution is publicly funded, in my opinion it is permissible to lie, because they are acting against the law that funds them. In a completely private institution it’s more problematic, because they have the right to accept whomever they choose.
Am I a yeshiva student?
I saw in another comment that you could say you voted Gimel,
because Gopshtein and Ben Gvir and racism all start with G.
That reminds me of a relative of mine, an educated man despite the black kippah,
that after we voted we drove to visit them.
His wife of course voted Gimel.
We asked, and what about you?
He answered with a wink: Gimel.
We asked, what? (He may wear a black kippah, but he’s a classy guy.)
He answered: Yes, Gimel — that’s Gantz…?
WOW, he voted for Gantz.
Really a classy guy?
Not only does “Gantz” start with G — from what one hears, he’s about to unite with “Gideon Sa’ar,” and together they’ll be G.G. 🙂
Best regards, Gil Gamish ben Gabriel Girondi the Gileadite
And if he doesn’t tell them that he voted for the letter Heh,
his children won’t be accepted to the schools,
and there’s a reasonable chance he’ll be fired from his job cleaning the mikveh.
(Not officially; they’ll find some other excuse.)
Would it then be proper to bluff them?