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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>I always
thought that it is a mitzva to be ethical, honest and have<BR>integrity.
"V'asita hatov v'hayashar" for starters. So how can it be that<BR>being honest
and ethical is outside the definition of being "frum" if you<BR>define frum as
"keeping the mitzvos"?<BR><BR>David I. Cohen</FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>EVERYONE sins, but if he keeps the basics he is frum. </DIV>
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<DIV>Frum just means observant, Orthodox. It is not a synonym for
righteous and perfect in all taryag mitzvos, though it would be a wonderful
world if it were. I am just defining the word in its common, long-time
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<DIV>As for ehrlichkeit, it can mean adhering strictly to halachos regarding
honesty in business and in all your dealings, but sometimes it also means going
above and beyond, lifnim meshuras hadin -- for example, paying someone who
thinks you owe him even if me'ikar hadin you don't, because you don't want
to leave him with hard feelings or because you are free of debt on a halachic
technicality but on some level you still feel that you really do owe him.
Ehrlech also means trustworthy, that you can trust a man's word. An
ehrlicher person can be relied on to do what he said he would do and
doesn't wriggle out on technicalities.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><B>--Toby Katz<BR>================</FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_____________________
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