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Shalom aleichem!

I really enjoy your show, thank you for all the work that goes into it! I like how you present different sides of an issue, and how you often question and push back at different assertions.

On your recent issue, a yungerman was interviewed regarding some business trouble he was in, and how he is now unfortunately facing a prison sentence.

Overall I found this to be lacking in any sign of taking responsibility for his actions. For example, he repeated the phrase “situation you find yourself in” multiple times. It’s not just semantics, it’s as if he’s suggesting that it wasn’t his fault.

Moreover, he noted at one point that many of us “don’t have an education,” by which he meant a college degree. Don’t have an education? What were all the years of yeshiva? Is he asserting that if only he had a college degree, then he wouldn’t have broken the law? Do you need to attend college to know that dina d’malchusa dina certainly applies in monetary matters?

While mistakes certainly can and do happen, I was surprised that he didn’t indicate a sense of “I wish I hadn’t done that shady business deal.” I’m not saying that he doesn’t feel that way, just that if this was meant as a cautionary tale to others, perhaps that should have been conveyed more clearly.

The reason to not do shady business dealings (and if he’s going to jail r”l, it was apparently more than just shady…) is not because you might get caught, but because it’s against halacha. We ask rabbonim our shailos in taharas hamishpacha, Shabbos… what about shady business deals?

It’s obviously a big rachmonus for his, his wife and children. Is there no need to take responsibility for one’s actions?

Thank you,

Shaul Wertheimer

Queens, NY

Can there be an episode dedicated to the topic of Moshiach and Geula, clarifying the many misconceptions, and as a bonus perhaps discussing the halachic perspective on the Lubavitcher Rebbe being Moshiach.

Shalom Reb Dovid,

Thank you very much for such an informative and interesting podcast.

I’ve been listening with great interest as you educate our community on the dangers of “quick money” and syndicate investing and would like to request that you go a step further into uncovering and understanding the actual “demand & supply” problem.

Namely, how can we address the ever rising expectations we place on ourselves, as a community, on top of the already costly frum life? Secondly, how can we expect young men not to look and deal in grey areas if they are expected to produce an exorbitant amount of money without any real means to do so?

For the galactic context – are we neglecting our paternal obligation to teach our sons a trade? By doing so are we not setting them up for a career in the shadows of the law?

Both of these are immense communal challenges, but, at least the second is one that we can take concrete steps to correct (in theory).

I would love to hear your take on these issues, regardless of whether you feel like they are ones that are appropriate for your podcast.

Respectfully,

And with much thanks,

Hi Mr Lichtenstein

I listened to the part of your podcast about money issues. The story is very sad however the source of all these problems and the idolization of money or respect ect all boils down to a lack of the “I” healthy self esteem. This is something that is a plague in klal yisroel that is not taught by our systems and unfortunately many parents cannot teach this either because they don’t have it. This is also the source of sinas chinam on a deeper level. Until we can teach the generation to love themselves and appreciate themselves with the greatness HaShem put within them all the talk about the risks and following rules ultimately will not help you stand up to the nisayon as clearly, this man put it.