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" ," "\, ,. :;:, '' " ' ... " "", .. ,>. ", '' ........ , ... Tishrei 57 60 • October 1999 U.S.A.$3.50/Foreign $4.50 •VOL XXXII/NO. 8 THE JEWISH OBSERVER (ISSN) 0021-6615 is published monthly except July and August by the Agudath Israel of America, 84 William Street, New York, N.Y. 10038. Periodicals postage paid in New York, N.V. Subscription $24.00 per year; two years, $44.00; three years, $60.00. Outside of the United States (US funds drawn on a US bank only) $12.00 surcharge per year. Single copy $3.50; foreign $4.50. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Jewish Observer, 84 William Street, N.Y., N.Y. 10038. Tel: 212-797-9000, Fax: 212-269-2843. Printed in the U.S.A. HALACHA & ETHICS IN THE WORKPLACE RABBI NISSON WOLPIN, EDITOR Overview EDITORIAL BOARD Robbi Yookov Perlow N"v"n>, the Novominsker Rebbe DR. ERNST L. BODENHEIMER Chairman Employer/Employee Relationships in Ha/acha RABBI ABBA BRUDNY Rabbi Noach Isaac Oelbaum RABBI JOSEPH ELIAS JOSEPH FRIEDENSON Imbuing the Work Day with Sanctity RABBI YISROEL MEIR KIRZNER RABBI NOSSON SCHERMAN Robbi Baruch Hirschfeld PROF. AARON TWERSKI Modern Business and the lssur of Ribbis MANAGEMENT BOARD Robbi Moshe Silberberg AVI FISHOF NAFTOLI HIRSCH 7 The Secular Enforceability of a Beis Din Judgment ISAAC KIRZNER RABBI SHLOMO LESIN Steven H. Resnicoff NACHUM STEIN ESSAY RABBI YOSEF C. GOLDING Business Manager 1939 - Sixty Years Ago, When Civilization Exploded Published by Yud Pnnini Agudath Israel of America U.S. IBADE DISffi/BUTOR ISRAEU DISTRIBUTOR THE WORLD OF THE BAAL TESHUVA Feldheim Publishers Nechemia Rosenberg 200 Airport Executive Park Kiryat Telshe Stone, 108A Spring Valley, N.Y. 10977 D.N. Harei Yehuda. ISRAEL Silent Anguish, Tangible Growth Leah Ross EUROPEAN REPRESENTATIVE AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTOR M.T. Bibelman Gold's Book & Gitt Co. Grosvenor Works 36 William Street Mount Pleasant Hill Balaclava 3183, Vic., London ES 9NE, ENGLAND AUSTRALIA Are We Prepared for the Year 2000 Yosef Israel and Mork Powers THE JEWISH OBSERVER does not assume responsibility for the Kashrus of any product, publication, or service Letters to the Editor advertised in its pages © Copyright 1999 OCTOBER 1999 VOLUME XXX!l/NO. 8 A conference sponsored by Agudath Israel of America's Torah Projects Division on "The Interface of Ethics and Halacha in the Business and Professional World;' held in Manhattan on April 25, 1999, featuring thirteen lectures by prominent rabbonim and poskim (authorities in halacha), attracted over 500 participants. A strong message emanated Shamayim. To further articu from the conference - both from late this message, The Jewish its enthusiastic attendance and Observer presents in the pages the substance of the sessions: the that follow the keynote address relevance of Torah to all of our by the Novominsker Rebbe, endeavors, and the mandate for N"""'1:1 as well as excerpts from us all to bring glory to Shem four of the presentations. Torah: Our Source of Values For Ethical Living The keynote address delivered by the Novominsker Rebbe, N"1"7l!I, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, Rosh Agudas Yisroel, at the recent Halacha Conference for Business Leaders and Professionals find it personally inspiring to witness the halachic issues that relate to their SINAI - WHERE IT ALL BEGAN this assembly of Jews. The partici practices, their behavior - in the office, I pants have come together in the spir on the road, and even at home - to he Jewish system of morality, it of "Az nidberu yirei Hashem ish el decide to become simply better Jews. All integrity and upright living is not rei'eihu - Then those who fear spoke are declaring to Hakadosh Baruch Hu Tonly a virtue dictated by the human to one another" (Malachi 7,13), dedi and are testifying to the world at large mind, nor is only one ordained in so cated not only to learning the precepts that His Torah is a Toras Chaim, a Torah called "natural law:' Rather, it was revealed of the Torah, but to devising methods of real life - the only life worth living. and passed down to Moshe Rabbeinu at of bringing these ideas into real life, This conference is taking place dur Sinai along with the rest of the Torah, despite questions and nisyonos (chal ing the season of saying and learning as is implicit in opening passage of Pirkei lenges) and problems that occur in the Pirkei Avos. Mainly, this was meant for Avos (popularly called "Ethics of Our work place, in business, and in the pro the six weeks between Pesach and Fathers"): "Moshe received the Torah from fessions. All have come here to learn the Shavuos as a preparation for Kabbolas Sinai and transmitted it to Yehoshua ...." d'var Hashem, zu ha/acha... to seek HaTorah, so that the middos tovos It is G-d given, and as such is no less guidance from talmidei chachamim. (good character) and hanhagos yesharos commanding and imperative than any This conference, this public testimony (ethical conduct) that we study in other mitzva in the Torah. (See to ourselves and to the society around Pirkei Avos should provide the setting Bartenura on Avos I:l.) Indeed, Torah us, that only Torah values are the crite and the inspiration for the experience without ethics is like Torah without tzitzis ria by which we live, is truly a kiddush of Ma'amad Har Sinai- ((receiving the and tefillin. It is an integral part of the Shem Shamayim. This is especially so Torah at Sinai" on Shavuos - for the Torah that Moshe received at Sinai. with regard to people in the business Torah can only reside in a lev tov, in a Clear and simple; and yet one may world who are committed to abide by derech yeshara. ask: Is there a specific mitzva that serves 6 The Jewish Observer, October 1999 as the Torah basis for ethics and morali CHARITY AND JUSTICE ty? There are many mitzvos bein adam - BEYOND DERECH ERETZ • lechavero, addressing interpersonal hen someone asks affairs. The Rambam writes that all the ow tzeddaka umishpat- chari enumerated mitzvosof chessed, like bikur ty and justice - are universal W you to lend him a cholim, hachnosas kalla, nichum aveilim, N concepts. A society without the etc. (tending to the needs of the sick, basic elements of charity and justice is dime, or a dollar, or a helping brides, comforting the a jungle. At first glance, tzeddaka hundred dollars ... and you bereaved ... ) are all part of "Ve'ahavta umishpat are part of the derech eretz lere'acha kamocha- Love your neighbor shekadma laTorah - civil conduct that respond graciously, the as yourself." Ethics and morality, how is a prerequisite to Torah, and that was ever, include much more. The most valid nurtured before Sinai. Avraham Avinu, man in the street sees it as answer -to my mind, the only answer however, did not teach tzeddaka umish a noble gesture, a humane is the mitzvas asei of 1':rn:::i n::i?rn, pat as merely derech eretz. He taught om'OTr.2'°""1 -to emulate the ways and it as derech Hashem, as recorded in expression; extending the middos of the Ribbono Shel Olam - Bereishis (above: "Veshamero derech "Mah hu rachum, af atta rachum ..