Month: ‍‍ תשרי / מרחשון תשס״ח – October 2007

  • Mechilah without a Kinyan with a Shtar

    I must confess, this post is rather late. We first saw the קצוה”×— on which it’s based last Thursday night, but until tonight (Mon), I didn’t really have a clear enough understanding in everything to feel comfortable letting anyone see my (limited) understanding. Thanks to some clarifications in today’s שיעור and a discussion with my […]

  • Mechusar Amanah (2)

    Earlier, we discussed three סוגיות dealing with מחוסר אמנה. In this post, we’ll discuss the הלכה למעשה, and try and explain all three sources according to both sides.

  • 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 […]