Question: While cleaning up after a non-religious family event at Chabad house, a bag of non-kosher cognac and an empty flask was found. It belongs to one of the…
Question: While cleaning up after a non-religious family event at Chabad house, a bag of non-kosher cognac and an empty flask was found. It belongs to one of the…
Question: This a previous correspondence with Asktherav: At a farbrengen at my home once, someone left a scarf. I ended up using the scarf. It is now some five…
I’m in shul and I’m about to begin davening when I realize I’m holding someone else’s tallis! May I make a brachah on a “stolen” tallis? From a strictly…
Question: My brother, 12 years old, used to have a lop top and stopped using it years ago. Since I needed a lop top I asked him to look…
One may not intentionally deceive anyone, including non-Jews, but it is permissible to take advantage of a mistake made by a gentile (ta’us akum), unless doing so will cause…
Question: I made a purchase on amazon and got a notification that it was delivered. When I checked for the package though I wasn’t able to find anything so…
Yes. דינא דמלכותא דינא, וברשות הממשלה לקחת נכסי התושבים על פי חוקי המדינה. וגם כבר התייאש ממנו. ראה שו"ע אדה"ז הל' גזילה וגנבה סעיף יט: וכן אם גזר מי…
Question: My brother works in a store in Crown Heights and found a stroller that was left behind already for three days. He offered it to me and said…
I recently came across a blanket on the street. I was afraid to touch it and find its owner being that I was in an unsafe part of the neighborhood,…
If the money was found in a place that many people pass through and was lying in a way that it appears to have fallen there (as opposed to…
