Respected by the President | Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel

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[Music] The New York Times has a column in its Sunday magazine called the ethicist in which a person who was supposedly expert in the area of ethics opines on some issue of the day. This goes back to a column that appeared in the ethicist going back to 2002. At that time the ethsist was a gentleman by the name of Randy Cohen. And a question was posed to the ethsist. It was written in by a woman who had just concluded a real estate transaction. She was helped on her side by a real estate broker who was an Orthodox Jew and very competent and very polite and very kind. Uh and she was really very grateful to him for the wonderful work she did. So she extended her hand to him. But he refused to shake her hand and he said please forgive me uh because of my religious beliefs I will not shake the hand of any woman or touch any woman other than my wife. I was very insulted, says the letter writer to the ethicist, and I was wondering, I believe in non-discrimination that he wouldn't

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1. 0:00[Music] The New York Times has a column in its Sunday magazine called the ethicist in…
2. 0:32her side by a real estate broker who was an Orthodox Jew and very competent and…
3. 1:02shake my hand. I was so insulted by that. I'm thinking of tearing up the contract.…
4. 1:32along came somebody from the White House staff and came over to those of us who…
5. 2:03the contract." The president of the United States says, "I respect what you're doing. I respect…
6. 2:33that's something that commands respect in the eyes of the world. So, let's not give in…

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