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  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Due i owe money damages for lost profit on money i was holding for someone & i borrowed it without permission ?

Question: If someone gave me money to hold for him, and I borrowed it temporarily without his permission…. and then he showed up wanting it right away & I did… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property damages shomer
03/08/2018
  • Messengers (shlichut)
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

shlichus

Question: an answer was posted about buying something for someone and it getting lost beoness shulchan aruch C:M 182:1, 200:12 seem to say clearly that a messanger makes the kinyan… Read more »

Messengers (shlichut) Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
23/06/2016
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Agent to Deliver Charity

If a person sends true a shaliach tzedaka to another person is it permissible for the shaliach to maaser the money or take off a certain amount of the money… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property agent Charity Maaser
04/03/2016
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Status of Property Manager

As a property manager, my pay or income happens only when the property produces income. I get paid a percent of the income. No income No pay. A question has… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
26/02/2016
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Pruzbul Explanation

Regarding the Pruzbol. Do I need 3 people or 2? TWO witnesses, or 3 to form a BAIS DIN? Be more elaborate as to the process? Its coming up soon…. Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
03/08/2015
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Debt Money Stolen

If I owe a friend $5,000, and I have been saving up this money in a safe place, but one day someone steals all the money I have saved up… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
25/02/2015
  • Loans
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Rented Inhaler for Insurance

A friend of my son’s needed an inhaler. He gave us some money for it…afterwards we realized it may be assur to give it to him as the insurance company… Read more »

Loans Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
01/12/2014
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Stolen Bicycle (Shomrim)

Someone received permission from his friend to leave his bicycle left in his friend’s locked yard. The yard – which is normally locked – was left unlocked by the homeowner… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
02/10/2014
  • Damages
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Liability for Damaged Bicycle

In middle biking with my friend, he asked i we should switch bikes, we both agreed, the bike path was very dark,and i bumped his bike into somone coming in… Read more »

Damages Shomrim - Assuming liability for property borrowed damages Halacha lender Torah
09/10/2013
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Lost Money in Keeping

I was hired to do a job for a company by person D. I did the job. A few weeks later, Person D received the money in cash (800 shekels)… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
25/07/2013
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Hair Cutting Machine Broke

I borrowed a friends hair cutting machine to trim my beard. I started using it and realized it wasn’t cutting properly. I returned it to him confused as to why… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
07/11/2012
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Borrowed Sandwich Maker that Broke

We have been regularly borrowing our neighbor’s sandwich maker for a while. Yesterday, our main power tripped while the sandwich maker was plugged in. My wife left it plugged in… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property borrower Negligence ones
21/06/2012
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Bought New after Guardian Misplaced Software

I left a friend an expensive set of software. Later, I asked for it back. He responded that he had returned it to me. He’s an honest friend, so I… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
23/04/2012
  • Damages
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
  • Theft and robbery

Responsibility for Stolen Sefer Torah

If, Chas va’chalilah, a Sefer Torah is stolen from a shul would the gabbaim or shamash be responsible for damages? Answer: In general, the gabbaim or shamash of a shul… Read more »

Damages Shomrim - Assuming liability for property Theft and robbery Liability sefer torah
21/11/2011
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Lost Package

I was travling to Israel, and my friend sent a package with me for his sister. We stopped in Europe for 2 weeks, and when we arrived in Israel we could… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
13/10/2010
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Split Seam In A Hired Wedding Dress

Question: Kvod harabonim Shlita: I am in the wedding gown rental business. I rent both used and new gowns. The Kalla who rents knows whether her gown is new or… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
02/09/2010
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Finders Keepers

Question: A friend of ours borrowed some books and then lost them. She replaced the books at her own expense and a week later found the original ones. She would… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
02/09/2010
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Lost Credit Voucher

Question: An educational institute wanted to honour one of their supporters, and so they asked me to purchase a silver dish on their behalf for him, which they paid me… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
02/09/2010
  • Employees and employers
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Payment For Damage to A Used Item

Question: My wife gave her used sheitel to a sheitel macher to service. We hadn’t heard anything for a while, and now she has finally admitted that she lost it. How… Read more »

Employees and employers Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
01/09/2010
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Borrowed Earrings That Got Lost

Question: A woman lent her sister her earrings, and the borrower left the earrings in her closet. Another sister was staying with the borrower, and asked to borrow her bracelet…. Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
01/09/2010
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
  • Tzdakah and maaser

Stolen Tzeddaka

Question: My wife left her car window open in a parking lot of a shopping centre in Johannesburg. The car was locked. There are car guards who watch over the… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property Tzdakah and maaser
01/09/2010
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Work Supplies for Personal Use

Is someone allowed to use work supplies for personal use, if it typically won’t detract from the item? For example, a computer game purchased to enhance students’ knowledge,szissors, CD’s… What… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
22/06/2010
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Borrowing Books

If one finds another’s sefer in a Beis Medrash, not as an avaida, but on a shelf where people keep private sefarim, i.e. in a yeshiva, is one allowed to… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
22/06/2010
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Does a Lender’s Handing Over Exempt the Borrower?

I borrowed a sefer from a friend who brought it to me from his house. Is his bringing it to me considered ba’lav e’mo? I was thinking that the mishna… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
22/06/2010
  • Shomrim - Assuming liability for property

Broken thermostat in borrowed apartment

Ploni borrowed someone’s house to stay in over Pesach.At the end of Pesach he discovered that the themostat on the water heater had broken on its own, not thru any… Read more »

Shomrim - Assuming liability for property
15/04/2010

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