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Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Emes and the Law seminar - Update

As in the previous years, the Emes and the Law seminar was an outstanding success. The program began with Rabbi Yissocher Frand speaking about sheker and the pitfalls of when one sinks into this mode of conducting business. Yosef Leshkowitz related a story about an assumption in the court system of Jews being uneducated and not understanding English, when in fact most Jews are extremely educated and knowledgeable. Jacob Laufer also spoke about emes and the importance of conducting oneself in this manner at all times. Supreme Court Justice David Schmidt as reported spoke about the chillul Hashem that takes place when a Jew goes to court. He related some real life experiences as to what is said about Jews when they can't solve their disputes on their own. Judge Schmidt rattled of scores of quotes from the Gemorah and Rishonim about the extreme issur of going to court. He also said that while businessmen usually use the excuse that Beis Din makes P'shoras, as a heter to go to court, the secular court settles over 96% of cases anyway. Besides that point, he said, it is the Halacha that Beis Din should make P'shoras. As a solution to this problem, the Judge said that if people would write out their business contracts according to Halacha they would not have to go to court, because the court would have to rule exactly as the Beis Din would. The last speaker, Sheldon Eisenberger, spoke about doing business the right and straight way and relayed some personal experiences about himself as an attorney. The fire Department came down several times throughout the seminar to make sure that everything was up to standard. Rabbi Zwiebel, the Chairman, announced a couple of times to make sure that the exits were not blocked because there were 'chushive' guests present that were watching for that. The seminar was video taped and audio recorded for those who could not make it.

Comments:
DEAR CHAPTZEM, AS ONE OF THOSE UNFORTUNATE ONES THAT COULD NOT MAKE IT LAST NIGHT TO THE "KINNUS" I GREATLY APPRECIATE YOUR COVERAGE OF THE EVENT HOWEVER I COULD NOT HELP BUT NOTICE WITH A LITTLE PAIN HOW MUCH ENTHUSIASM YOU PUT IN TO REPORTING ON THIS EVENT AND HOW MUCH YOU WANTED EVERYONE TO BE THERE AS YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE ALWAYS WITH SOME CRITICISM ON THE "FRUM" BEHAVIOR PROBLEM - NOW DON'T GET ME WRONG IT IS IS A GREAT DEAL BUT IF YOU ARE SUCH A BIG FAN OF "MENTSHLICHKEIT" MAYBE YOU SHOULD TAKE "LOSHON HORA" A LITTLE BIT MORE SERIOUSLY - AFTER ALL THE TORAH IS LAW AS WELL...........

 

where do we call for a copy of the recording?

 

Can you please supply info on how to get copies of tapes/transcripts?

 

Here's an UPDATE on EMES and ....

Could you let your bloggers know about me, let them know how eager I am to hear from more Mondrowitz victims, and make my contact information available to all? I can be emailed at mlesher@att.net, or through my web site (which I invite everyone to see to learn about me), MichaelLesher.com.

 

Did someone forget to tell Judge Schmidt that right now no one cares about regular business issues. Rather the issue he missed speaking about was that people should go to the courts and report child molestation charges when the so called frum community trys to cover up the fact that molesters exist. What ever happened to "dina di malchusa dina"? that doesn't seem to apply for child molesters just as its ok to cheat on your taxes

 

Intersting - Judge Schmidt spoke about going to court snd not Bais Din. Yet Sheldon Eisenberger and his ilk take other frum people to court when they should be in Bais Din.

 

Thou shall not steal

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060801/NEWS03/608010348/1019

 

you still haven't told us where we can obtain a videotape of the seminar. Why?

 

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