[lbo-talk] God's ruling on good price-comparison bargain shopping

Bryan Atinsky bryan at alt-info.org
Wed May 27 07:25:25 PDT 2009


For the issue of construction at least, this ruling by the rabbi is a moot point.

First, good luck finding Haredi (ultra-orthodox) construction workers (why do manual labor when you can get paid by the Israeli government to defend Israel through the important work of studying in a yeshiva). Second, anyway, even if you can find Israeli Jewish (secular or religious ) construction workers, they are more than likely to cost you greater than 16.6 % more than would the ever-plentiful Palestinian or foreign (Chinese usually in the construction industry) workers.

So, now, Palestinians and Chinese will still build your home for you, or the Thai workers will pick your crops, but you can feel Halachically 'kosher' about doing it. You got a valid coupon from god to do it.

Bryan

Matthias Wasser wrote:
> One could possibly set up a gradient, such that it is permissible to select
> a store owned by a secular owner over the store of a merely pious Jew if the
> latter's prices are more than 8.3% greater.
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