Learning Torah Lishmah vs. Lo-Lishmah: As a post-script to our essay Cunning: Skill to Achieve One's Goals by Deceit, Rav Sheishet taught (Shabbat 63a): 诪址讗讬
What Was So Wrong With Lavan? It is written (Bereshit 3:1): 讜职讛址谞指旨讞指砖讈 讛指讬指讛 注指专讜旨诐 诪执讻止旨诇 讞址讬址旨转 讛址砖指旨讉讚侄讛 讗植砖侄讈专 注指砖指讉讛 讬职讬指 讗直诇止拽执讬诐 (And the Nachash was