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Current Topic:
Halachos of Hashovas Aveidah
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1)
If, upon announcing the finding of a lost item, two individuals come
forward and both give the same or similar correct Simanim, the finder
does not give it to one or the other.
Rather, one of them must relinquish his claim to the other, or they can make a compromise amongst themselves. (See Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat Siman 267:8 and Shach Os 5)
If one of them brings witnesses to support his claim the item can be returned to him based on their testimony. (Rama ibid.)
2)
If the two individuals gave different Simanim, the item should be
returned to the one whose Simanim were of the stronger variety (as we
discussed yesterday), as determined by a Dayan, a Halachic judge. (See Shach Siman 267 Os 10 and 12)
QUESTION&ANSWER CORNER
Reader
Submitted Questions of interest on topics related to Halachos we
covered, as well as other interesting topic and Answers.
Although
the answers I give to questions are taken directly from the Sifrei
HaPoskim, and aren't my own, they are still for study purposes
only, NOT for Psak Halacha. Questions can be emailed to HalachaForToday@Gmail.com
QUESTION:
Wouldn't
mezonos rolls be considered 'Maaris Ayin' since someone may see you eat
one without washing and assume it's regular bread?
ANSWER:
Well, first of all, "Mezonos Rolls" that are eaten as a meal
require Netilas Yadayim and HaMotzi and Birchas Hamazon anyway,
according to virtually all Poskim.
That being said, if
you are eating it as a snack or other method where it is definitely
Mezonos, how would the people seeing you know if you have washed or not?
It
is just as possible that you did indeed wash in another room and come
here to eat your "Hamotzi roll" If they heard you say the Bracha
Mezonos, then there is no Maris Ayin either.
And if the above for some reason does not work, you can always tell them that it is a Mezonos roll, which is a common item.
All
in all, I don't think any Ma'aris Ayin would apply to this situation.
That being said, a Jew should always strive to act in a way that people
who see him/her say how fortunate it is to be a Torah Jew! (See Talmud
Yoma 86a)
Of course, a Rav should be consulted for Halacha L'Ma'aseh..
CHIZUK CORNER
This
section is dedicated L'Ilui Nishmos the Telzer Rosh Yeshiva, HaRav
Chaim Yaakov Stein Zatzal , the Mir Rosh Yeshiva, HaRav Noson Tzvi
Finkel Zatzal and the Rosh Yeshiva of Torah Ohr, the great Posek
HaRav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg Zatzal.
May we all strive to follow in their ways and may they be Melitzei Yosher for all of Klal Yisroel.
We
will B'Ezras Hashem post here each day a short inspirational thought to
help us all improve our lives and grow in our service of our Father in
heaven, HaKadosh Baruch Hu.
What do you tell someone who feels hurt if he's not liked by people?
ANSWER BY HARAV AVIGDOR MILLER ZATZAL:
Tell him it's not so;
it's imagination. Everybody is liked by people. Only, if you're going to
eat garlic all the time, people can't get close enough to tell you that
they like you. If you keep on fighting with people, they won't be able
to tell you that they like you. So stop fighting with them, stop being
mean to them, stop looking cross-eyed at them, and then you'll discover
that people like you. The fact is human beings like each other; it's
natural.
Human beings are
what you call gregarious, means we travel in packs. We don't live like
lone wolves all by ourselves; we live in packs. Why? Because it's the
nature of people to like each other, only you have to give the other
party a chance. And one of the most important ingredients in giving a
chance is what it says in Mishlei: ka'mayim ha'panim el ha'panim. A face
to another face is like a mirror, mayim means [looking in the] water.
Suppose you're looking in the water and you want to see a handsome face.
You can't scowl; you scowl into the water, that's what you're going to
see! You have to smile pleasantly into the water to see a nice face.
If people pass you
by on the street and are unfriendly, first ask yourself, what's my face
look like? You can be 100% sure that your face is unfriendly. If you
pass with a pleasant face, people are going to react, and that's a
fundamental teaching. A lot of people feel lonesome in this world, they
don't realize it's the garlic on their faces that drives others away.
He'vei me'kabel es kol adam bi'seiver panim yafos, greet everybody with a
pleasant cast of countenance. You have to practice that. You have to
aware of your duty no matter how you feel, no matter how unimportant
that person is.
You have to be noheg
kovod bi'chol adam, honor every person, make him feel good by showing
him a friendly face. Show him you're glad to see him, welcome him by
your face; you don't have to talk. Even your wife, when you come in from
work, you're tired, and the boss was mean today, you had tough
customers... Come in with a friendly face. And also a wife should greet
her husband with a friendly countenance. The face is all important, and
you'll be surprised how it pays off not only in good business - you get
customers - it pays off not only that people honor you, but it's good
for your health.
You perk up and
become a different man after a while, and many things that bothered you
-psychosis, worries, disappear when you start a career of greeting
everybody with a pleasant cast of countenance.
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