Honesty in Business and Parnassah

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why is honesty in business taken so seriously? Making a living can be avodas Hashem only inside the borders of Torah, and a sefer quoted calls honest money kedusha and dishonest money a step out into tumah. A story of pledge money left on Shabbos, and a teaching that food bought with dishonest money gives the neshama nothing, bring the point home. Questions from the room bring up the Chofetz Chaim, who refused yeshiva money that came through chillul Shabbos.

Key points

• A sefer quoted calls honest earnings kedusha and compares dishonest money to avodah zarah.
• One sefer reads Chazal's rule against changing a tax collector's money as avoiding its imprint.
• Dishonest money brings no real gain, since what is meant to come will come another way.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Recap on parnassah and kedusha
2. 0:29Honesty in business
3. 2:03Honest money and kedusha
4. 3:28The pledge money left on Shabbos
5. 6:12The imprint on money and the tax collector
6. 8:52Dishonest money brings no gain
7. 10:54Food bought with dishonest money
8. 13:07Questions from the room

Topics

• Honesty in Business
• Parnassah
• Kedusha