Q&A: The profession of a private investigator regarding infidelity — is it permitted to work in it? To advertise it?
The profession of a private investigator regarding infidelity — is it permitted to work in it? To advertise it?
Question
A potential advertising client approached me — he is a private investigator who claims that 90% of his work is connected to women’s/men’s infidelity.
Is it permitted for me to advertise for him?
Is it appropriate?
Answer
Why not? There is no necessity that the use of his services is inappropriate.
Discussion on Answer
Dear Ofir,
Why are you turning to Michi as if he were some kind of “moral lighthouse”?
I want to point out a few facts:
A. This is a person who called the Temple “Auschwitz for animals.”
B. This is a person who said that he understands Khmelnytsky and everyone who carried out pogroms and severe torture against Jews in Eastern Europe.
C. This is a person who calls great rabbis like Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu by the nickname “fool.”
Is this really the person you would want to turn to on matters of morality and even Jewish law?
To Rabbi Michael,
I see in many places that private investigators
fan the flames — since they profit from it,
they increase the spouse’s suspicion regarding infidelity.
I don’t know. But I don’t think you are supposed to worry about the investigator’s method of operation.
I don’t know — it seemed to me that helping someone track acts of infidelity is problematic.
On the other hand, maybe it’s also connected to judges and police.
The police themselves also investigate whether people commit offenses or not. And that’s apparently even a commandment.