[Avodah] kofoi tova

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Micha Berger
>

it wasn't a matter of minutes. It was "business" or "Institutional" rate
versus "personal" rate.   The ethics of the phone company were not in
question. The phone company charges a certain "commerical" rate and the
yeshiva registered this as a private residence, which it was not. I think
when I discussed this with my LOR he, too, was aware of ways to be melameid
zechus
Somtimes the "frum" community is simply in a state of denial and is not
willing to be modeh al ho'emese.  Rav Schwab Z"L:gave talks about this. Was
he the only one percptive enought to see this? And now that he is gone, does
tht mean honesty is gone from us, too?  Will we ALWAYS be able to give
excuses instead of playing straight?



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Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
RabbiRichWolpoe at Gmail.com
see: http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/
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