Introduction: split in two -- Hypocrisy and Jesus -- Anti-hypocrisy: looking bad in order to be good -- Virtues with natural immunities to hypocrisy -- Naked truth: hey, wanna...? -- In divine services and other ritualized performances -- Say it like you mean it: mandatory faking and apology -- Flattery and praise -- Hoist with his own petard -- The self, the double, and the sense of self -- At the core at last: the primordial Jew -- Passing and wishing you were what you are not -- Authentic moments with the beautiful and sublime? -- The alchemist: role as addiction -- 'I love you': taking a bullet vs. biting one -- Boys crying and girls playing dumb -- Acting our roles: mimicry, makeup, and pills -- False (im)modesty -- Caught in the act.