– Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. As we spoke and you asked me to send this as a written question. Here it is. I deal with real estate and building houses and I have also used for many years a Real Estate Agent that has an Arabic name. Recently, when I tried to reach him for completing an agreement we signed already, since I didn’t have my own phone with me, I googled his name to contact him, and surprise! Surprise!!! I saw on line a terrible and most disgusting number of his recent anti Semitic articles and also his taking part in anti-Israel activities during the recent Hamas conflict. Should I still continue ending the agreement or just plainly avoid all contact with him. I stand to loose a significant amount if I break the contract. What is the correct thing do?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that you do not have to loose any capital over this now, yet avoid dealing with him in the future.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a