A Bedtime Story

"The punishment of the chronic liar is that he is not believed even when he tells the truth."

This teaching in our gemara sounds eerily like the message of the fable about “the boy who cried wolf.” I have heard from many rabbis and Torah educators over the years that all of the important lessons to teach our children can be found in Torah sources. And that these Jewish story-lessons are the only appropriate “bedtime stories” to read to our children.

Sanhedrin 89b

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