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It's very tricky, actually.
The Gemara in Kiddushin, on Dafayin Vavan Beis, tells us that a ger should not be appointed to a position where he inspects people's weights.
You know, the weights that they use for their scales when they're selling produce.
So, the ger shouldn't be the guy doing the inspections.
And, because that's viewed as a position of surah.
Now, is that a very prestigious position?
It's not really a prestigious position.
L'chor, it's got nothing to do with prestige.
So, Rav Moshe understands that a
seems to understand as follows that when the purpose of a job that a person has is not only to do the bidding of the person who employs you but to actually sometimes work against them and oversee them and do things that they don't want and implement things against those who you're in charge of or even who are in charge of you that would be a position of srarav
But a position that just has a certain measure of power over other people, like you're a boss in a company, that doesn't count as a position of srarah.
It has to be where you're dafqa working against somebody.
So Ramosha discusses the possibility, what about a ger, being a rosh yeshiva, or a mashkiach in a yeshiva.
So they certainly have certain powers, but he doesn't think that you can throw kids out of the yeshiva if you're a rosh yeshiva.
But he doesn't think that that's srarah.
Because that's just like a boss power.
That's not the power of acting against the will of the employer.
Because the reshiva can't go against the board.
The board employs him and the reshiva can't decide to...