[Avodah] offering a higher salary

Lisa Liel lisa at starways.net
Mon Oct 30 03:39:03 PDT 2017


On 10/30/2017 7:34 AM, Ben Waxman via Avodah wrote:
> After look a bit, I saw that the Aruch HaShulchan CM 237:3 paskens 
> that this law only applies to a poor person. A poor person who finds 
> something that he needs, you can't come along and offer more money for 
> it....
> It would seem that anyone who can hire a maid does not qualify as poor 
> and I am willing to bet that there is a good supply of people willing 
> to work.

Poor in halakha means not having what you're accustomed to have.  It
isn't an objective benchmark or a comparison to other people.

Lisa



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