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The responsibilities an employee has toward his employer are broad - something not very usual in today's workplace of spending time chatting and water cooler breaks. In this valuable shiur for anyone not their own boss, Rav Berkovits lays out clear guidelines of what is acceptable according to halacha, and what is not.
When you order an item and something else comes to your door, you may have more to think about than the sloppiness of the company who sent it. Are you in the right to demand a new object even if the difference between what you have and what you wanted is minimal? And can the storeowner demand it back to keep his good name, even if you decide youåÕll keep it?
Interest is actually considered a form of stealing. But what the Torah regards as interest, and what is Ribis DeRabanan are two different things. Rav Berkovits elucidates this complex subject, explaining the appropriate way to lend money without taking a chance of losing it all.
The topic of damages is one of the most necessary to understand when we deal with others. How responsible are we for ruining someone elses belongings? Very. Rav Berkovits narrows down the category of being totally blameless, and describes the precautions we must take with things that donåÕt belong to us.
Rav Berkovits finishes off his series on Hilchos Ben Adam Lechaveiro by clarifying the issues of nezek -damage. Can one break municipal law, such as driving above the speed limit? If one lives in Israel, such issues become very confusing. Giving money to the government can be used to support things that we don't approve of. What can we do about it, especially when the taxation is unreasonable?
An understanding of the laws of interpersonal relationships requires a solid grasp of the halachic system. Under what circumstances are we to apply our own logic in deducing what is right and wrong? When are we limited to what the halacha tells us? Rav Berkowitz introduces this series with an outline of when to apply our own sensitivities in the development of halacha. This lecture is "a must" for any serious student of basic Jewish law.
