Purim 5785: Do you talk the talk or just dress the part?
I know that Purim is still more than a month away, but I was inspired to say something after seeing a certain post and follow-up comment on LinkedIn. That platform includes quite a number of people who look very frum with beards and peyos. But they are there just for business and seem to compartmentalize a Jewish soul from a businessman's head. This particular person who calls himself a fractional CFO was bemoaning the fact that Trump's proposed tariffs could harm his business and the businesses of various partners. My response to that was " Lev melachim beyad Hashem. In truth, there issues that matter to me a great deal more than inflation and domestic production." As so often happens on LinkedIn when people don't expect to be challenged in any way, he played dumb about what I meant. So I clarified: "Y ou really have to ask after that has happened since Shmini Atzeret 5783?" His response was to twist my words thus: " I ask what's the logic o...
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