Day 2: "Let Your Fellow's Money Be as Precious to
You as Your Own"
I'm beginning to see that there will be many values in this
book that I personally will not or don't currently have the chance to act on.
Being honest in business dealings would be one of those values.
Rabbi Telushkin tells us to handle our fellows’ money as if
their money was ours; to act honestly in business dealings always. This value
stems from Vayikra 19:18: ואהבת לרעך כמוך, Love your neighbor as yourself.
The Talmud tells us that
the first question we will be asked in heaven will not be about our religiosity
or our observance of Judaism. The first question we will be asked will about
how honest we were in our business transactions. This is both marvelous and
confounding to me, and I hope that by the time I am ready to answer this
question, I will have had the opportunity to be honest in my business.
Since part of this
project is about finding ways that these values relate to my life, the closest
I can think of is the summer internship and job applications I have been and
will be filling out. I wouldn’t want to lie on my resume and I haven’t so far.
I know this seems like a childish comparison, but I’ll take any opportunity I
have to be honest in a business capacity.
"Only he who is reliable in money matters may be considered pious."-Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Koidonover
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