A question about the laws of wealth and a man to his fellow man
Hello Rabbi,
I am currently on a mission in a Jewish community abroad with two other friends, all of us 23 years old. Before we arrived here, we were supposed to live in a 3-room apartment that the community rents for the mission, but due to technical reasons we arrived a few months late. During this time, 2 maids who also work here in the community moved into the apartment, and were supposed to live in a guesthouse owned by one of the families, but because we didn't arrive, they moved into the apartment designated for us. Currently, a situation has arisen where the guesthouse is not possible, and there is the option of living with an elderly couple who have 2 spare rooms in the house (on a separate floor). The community gives us the option of deciding whether to move into the original apartment, which involves moving the girls to the second house, or to let them stay and move in ourselves (more crowded) with the same family. On the one hand, there are considerations of convenience related to the distance to the Jewish High Court, considerations of a kind of trade-off (for example, I flew under the assumption that I would have a separate place, privacy, etc., and I'm not sure I would agree in advance to live with family at home), and of course the fact that they both live in a 3-room apartment and we will have to be more crowded. On the other hand, it is very unpleasant to move them from an apartment they have already settled into and it seems that it will upset them greatly, and in addition, they claim that as girls they will feel less comfortable than us living alone with a family from the community. We are not quite able to reach a decision between us whether to go ahead with the law and give up, or whether it is justified to insist on the current plan. I myself do not know at all what is right and moral to do in this situation, and whether there is a flaw in asking them to make the concession for all the above reasons. I wanted to ask whether, in the Rabbi's opinion, there is any halakhic solution to a decision in such a situation, and even if not, what in the Rabbi's opinion is the right thing to do.
Many thanks in advance!
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