Versions of The Truth

Harry: I have never lied to you. I have always told you some version of the truth.

Erica Barry: The truth doesn't have versions, okay?

(Quote from the movie "Somethings Got To Give")

The more I think about it the more I've realized that Harry is actually right. There are "versions of Truth"; not because there is no one objective set of Truth out there in the world [I believe that there is i.e. Torah sh'Bichtav] but because of the deficiencies on the side of the "receiver" the "Truth" must sometimes be "distorted" so as to conform appropriately to the receiver. Or in other words, telling over the Pure Truth to someone "who can't handle the Truth" is not Truth at all.

Take the issue of גר הבא על אמו for example. The Torah defines for us the pure existential Truth of the matter-- גר שנתגייר כקטן שנולד דמי , therefore Truth sees no ערוה in the relationship whatsoever. But we, as flesh and blood humans have difficulty making that distinction, we're so accustomed at looking through pure physical lenses that we see as nothing less than incest. Hence the רבנן come and prohibit it. Which one is therefore "the Real Truth"? Both are, depending on what dimension you're coming from. Existentially, objectively גר הבא על אמו is מותר. Practically, in reality, in practice it's forbidden because the world cannot handle that Truth...

This is also לענ"ד the deeper understanding in דן דין אמת לאמתו beyond it's being an objective דין אמת it also is subjectively, in it's application, לאמתו.

Harry: I have never lied to you. I have always told you some version of the truth.

[P.S. Afterwards I saw that the של"ה in his comments on פרשת בראשית says a very similar thing. ברוך שכוונתי ]