Business Ethics: Opening a Shop Next to a Shop - Rabbi Shlomo Cohen

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[Music] a [Applause] question that often comes up thats related to a very large topic which is actually not discussed anywhere in chaste of benefiting from someone else's effort let's say that you've got a shot on the high street and your shop has been there for many years because of the great name that your shop has people come from all over town whenever they want to buy shoes right you have a shoe shop everyone who needs shoes they all know that you've got a great shoe shop and they all come to you now another guy comes along and opens up a shoe shop next door to you and you come to him with it with China's hang on a sec everyone that comes around here is coming because of me they're coming to my shop you're going to be taking away my business you have to close up your shop is that a valid claim in Jewish monetary law or not the Gamorrean moset about the batter asks the question are you allowed to open up a shop next to someone else's existing shop not necessarily in a case where they have tremendous they have a tremendous name and attracting large amounts of people to this store but even where they're not just in a normal case where one of the shop owner says there's not going to be enough business here for the two of us well I'm not going to be making that profit if you're here next door to me the Gomorrah wants to bring a case to prove from this case as to whether there's a problem with opening up a shop next to someone else to shop or not the gamal says it tells us a case like this let's say you're going fishing

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1. 0:01[Music] a [Applause] question that often comes up thats related to a very large topic which…
2. 2:07you're going fishing you go down to the river and when you get there you see…
3. 4:10the fish are not yet his nevertheless we see that someone else shouldn't come along and…
4. 6:22they're going to buy they will come along they'll see your shop and they'll see his…
5. 8:26then you wouldn't be considered as having acted immorally by by by doing so it's interesting…
6. 11:07taken the net out of the water and that would be even if it wouldn't necessarily…
7. 13:12as know when either way in apart from one way in if someone else were to…
8. 15:19says that where the second guy is going to come and put down prices cut prices…
9. 17:33guy's exactly who you need for your company are you allowed to take him away from…
10. 19:40that says the shock on or off what about if the opposite situation arises what about…

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