Rabbi Yishai Natan - I recently stayed at a Jewish-owned hotel. The refrigerator in my room was fully stocked with different drinks, but the prices were extremely high. I wanted a cold soda, but I saw that the hotel was charging $8 for a can that I could buy for about $1 from a vending machine down the street. I felt that charging $8 for a simple can of soda was not … [Read more...]

Rabbi Yishai Natan - I hired a car service to take me from Lakewood to JFK Airport. The car service told me that the trip should take about two hours and would cost $200. Halfway through the ride, the car developed mechanical problems. The driver pulled over because it was dangerous to continue. I had a flight to catch and could not wait around for him to fix the car, so I … [Read more...]

HaRav Yishai Natan - My tenth-grade classmates and I were sitting in the yeshiva lunch room. It was my friend’s birthday, so his parents had two large hot poppers delivered to the yeshiva for him. He thought he would eat both of them, but after starting the second one, he quickly realized that it was not going to happen. He came over to my table, put the rest of the poppers … [Read more...]

HaRav Yishai Natan - I rent a two-bedroom basement apartment in Lakewood. My landlord, who lives upstairs, was looking to sell the house. I have two kids and another on the way, be’ezrat Hashem, and my landlord knew that I needed to find a bigger place. He asked me if I wanted to buy the house. This would allow me to move upstairs, where I would have much more space and … [Read more...]