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  • Site Moving

    Please note that this site is moving to a new server. As soon as I find out that the migration is complete, I’ll be disabling access to the old server, to prevent comments and other things from being posted to the old site. In case the DNS transfer takes a while, you’ll be able to […]

  • Mechusar Amanah

    Note: this post contains no original ideas, nor even any attempts at originality. Instead, it’s simply my way of making sense of a complicated issue. While we’ve seen the concept of מחוסר אמנה in the פוסקים for two weeks already, yesterday was the first time we started looking into the גמרא. In brief, מחוסר אמנה […]

  • Kinyan after Nesinah

    Last Thursday, we learned through (well, most of the way through) a קצות החושן, as per the normal Thursday night schedule. I just saw the נתיבות’s response, and I admit, I’m a bit puzzled, and have a few questions (note: not that they’re good questions; odds are I’m misunderstanding something). The post below summarizes the […]

  • Kinyan Hanaah

    The טור, in 204:1, writes the following: וכתב הרמב”ם ×–”ל אבל אם ×”×™×” לו חוב עליו ואמר לו מכור לי בחוב שיש לי אצלך ונתרצה המוכר הרי ×–×” כמי שנותן דמים עתה והחוזר בו עומד במי שפרע. ובקרקע ×›×™ האי גוונא קונה לגמרי. אבל אדוני אבי הרא”ש ×–”ל כתב שלא קנה אפילו המעות עדיין בעין […]

  • Kinyan Kesef M’Derabanan

    This will be the first in a (hopefully long) series of short notes about Choshen Mishpat. Our kehilla started a night program focusing on Choshen Mishpat today. I plan here to make some notes about things that strike me as interesting, confusing, or unclear. Hopefully, one day, this will develop into a place for chiddushim […]