noitallmr, Sheker ein lo raglayim. there is a famous story (confirmed as true by his son) where Rav Yaakov Kaminetsky ZT”L came to America collecting for the Slabodka Kollel. He went to someone and told him that the person gave a certain amount the previous year. the guy proved from his records that he gave less, and that Rav Kaminetsky ZT”L was given false numbers. Rav Kaminetsky ZT”L quit on the spot. Sheker, even for tzedakah, is assur. Considering the outcry locally in the Yated, I’m not sure the fundraisers asked. It’s still a big tzedakah, though. But my sympathies were much more aroused by the emes I read about them than the heeby-jeeby “segulos” and yeshuos.
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