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From: Russell Hendel <rhendel@mcs.drexel.edu>
Subject: Rabbis, Contracts, Doctors, Scar Battala

Just a quick response to Avi Feldblum who in V28n39 suggested that
religious doctors also could only take wages because of the argument of
Scar Batalah --that because they are doing medicine they cannot spend
time doing other mitzvoth. The shulchan Aruch citing the talmud finds
the heter to take monetary compensation for doctors from the explicit
verse "...and you shall surely heal" (Ex 21:19)--->>From here we learn
the permissability of charging for medical services.<<

The original question was how Rabbis can take contracts if their only
heter to take money is because they could be doing something else.  As
to Avis other point--->>Why do you assume that something else = being a
waiter<<.  Actually I assume that >>Something else<< = >>the minimum
wage<< and I picked waiters since they usually get minimum wages.

So these two questions still stand: a) what is the definition of
minimum wage and b) why can a Rabbi take a standing contract to
receive "money for being idle" If anyone has ideas it would be
appreciated.

Russell Jay Hendel; Phd ASA Rhendel @ mcs drexel edu