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To return to me

שו”תCategory: moralTo return to me
asked 3 years ago

In the verbal agreement, until when can we recycle our son, and from what point is this determined, and if you go back on it, then it’s a lack of commitment and irresponsibility and a bit immoral?
 
For example. I have a night of canning at a hospital on Passover. The only solution is to swap with someone else. I asked two people, the first one answered me yes but one hundred shekels (for example), and the second one answered me yes but one hundred and fifty shekels. Both wanted money, because if they swap with me then they lose a day of work at their job, so I had to make up for it.
So I agreed (verbally) with the first one, I told him it was fine. Five minutes later, the second one came back to me and said, “You know what the hell I’m doing for you for free, because my religion (Islam) doesn’t allow making money off of other people’s problems.”
So I changed my mind and told the first one to leave and when I found someone who would do it for me for free.
Did I do the right thing?

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מיכי Staff answered 3 years ago

In principle, there is no contract here, but there is a moral obligation to fulfill it. But from the legal point of view, an oral contract is valid from the time it is made, and therefore, both from the law of Demalkhuta and perhaps from the law of Situmta, it is also halachically binding.

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