0519 - Learning Halacha from the Rebbe's Actions Part 4 - Paying the Sales Tax

00:01 There's another thing that the Rebbe did which is Negeah La'loch Lama'aseh, and this is what I heard from Rav Krinsky, from the Rebbe's Maskirim. I think he even said this over in public. And that is that the Rebbe once asked him to buy something for him. This was not for the institution, not for Merkaz Machne. This was for the Rebbe privately. So he went and bought it, and he came back to the Rebbe, and he gave the Rebbe the bill. I think that's how it was. And the Rebbe looked at it, and the Rebbe's going to pay him whatever he paid for it. But then the Rebbe looked at it, and the Rebbe said, "What about the sales tax?" So he said to the Rebbe that the institution, I don't know, Merkaz or Machne, whichever one, is a tax-exempt institution, therefore, we don't pay sales tax. So the Rebbe said to him, "But you didn't buy it for Merkaz. You bought it for me privately, so it's a personal thing. So I have to pay the sales tax." So the Rebbe told him to go back to the store and pay them the sales tax that he really was supposed to pay on this. So here we see a Ma'aseh Rav of the Rebbe, how careful he was with anything that has any Shemes to do with something that's not honest. And he told him actually to go back and pay the money that is owed for the sales tax. So that's something that's a

01:18 Hanhogi of the Rebbe that is Negeah La'loch Lama'aseh.