[Avodah] kofoi tova

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:16:20PM -0400, Richard Wolpoe wrote:
: Interesting. I overheard 2 rabbis from a local Yeshiva high school who were
: registering a phone in the dorm as a home phone even though it was an
: institutional phone and I questioned the eh tics of this.
: I asked my own LOR...
: He said NO it is not G'nievas Da'as it is MAMASH G'neiva.  It's like an a
: adult buying a child's discounted ticket by lying about one's age.

Except that few telephones are per minute anymore. At least on home
contracts, all local calls are included.

So, perhaps the mechanchim weren't being so evil.

Instead, it's a zeh neheneh vezeh lo chaseir where the nachri (the phone
company) is the lo chaseir.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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