Questions tagged [shlichus-agency]
A Halachic concept where a person appoints an agent to perform some task. This agent is considered as the sender in many respects, and is capable of doing things which are considered as if the sender had done it himself, and are halachically binding on the sender. There are exceptions to this.
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Rabbi Grossman's tzedakkah segula for soldiers
In Israeli Dati social media circles there's been a little bit of a buzz recently1 over a segula apparently first introduced by Rabbi Grossman during the Second Lebanon War (see here from 0:52). The ...
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Can you send a Shliach to Yerushalaim for your maaser sheini?
Is there a specific requirement for the actual owner to actually eat it in Jerusalem? If yes, is a Kezayis sufficient?
Can the owner send a messenger to Jerusalem to deliver his Maaser Sheini there ...
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How is it permitted to sell chametz through an online agent? [duplicate]
While I seek out a rav to sell my chametz. Many people rely on selling their chametz online. The following questions occured to me about this...
Does chametz need to be sold through a specific person ...
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Pshat in the Bach on 2nd Tosofos in Ish Mekadesh
The Mishna in Kedushin 41A discusses being mekadesh a woman via shaliach.
האיש מקדש בו ובשלוחו האשה מתקדשת בה ובשלוחה האיש מקדש את בתו כשהיא נערה בו ובשלוחו
The Gemara asks what the "bo" ...
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Can shliach sue for reimbursement when he becomes liable for me'ilah?
When gizbar (temple treasurer) sends a shliach (agent) with hekdesh (consecrated) money (to buy something mundane) and then recalls that the money is hekdesh (and thus cannot be used for mundane ...
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May a Jew deliver non-Kosher food to another Jew? [duplicate]
With the increase in usage of food delivery services such as instacart or uber eats many people now have their food delivered to them. I would like to know if any contemporary authorities discuss the ...
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Can one sell chametz during a pandemic
The halachic transfer of property between parties (chaloth kinyan) conventionally involves a physical exchange of a tangible object (maaseh kinyan). For example, the rabbi of the synagogue I used to ...
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Why would G-d let angels speak on His behalf?
In regards to this question of mine I would like to ask:
In Genesis/Bereshit 18:10 it seems that one of the men/angels visiting Avraham is saying that Sarah will give birth to a son, while in Genesis ...
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Delivering a Get when the wife is far away
During a divorce proceeding, should the husband's wife ideally be given the Gett in person, even if she lives ~3000 miles away? (The divorce is consented by both parties and they are relatively ...
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May I redirect someone's "shlichut" money?
When I go to Israel, inevitably, several people give me shlichut money to donate to needy at the Kotel.
If I can't get to the Kotel, am I allowed to donate this money to anyone else at any other ...
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What is the purpose of "shlichut" money? [duplicate]
Whenever I have gone to Israel, people have given me "shlichut / mitzvah" money to donate at the Kotel.
Usually, I get to the Kotel, but, I don't always have time to do this, if I'm on a very short ...
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Is a "shaliach" required to perform a brit milah?
From my understanding of the way the mitzvah is phrased in the Torah, a person, should assure that he is circumcised. A baby, of course, cannot make this request at 8 days old, so, the father would do ...
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Can a shliach be paid?
We know that shlucho shel adam ka'moso and that the shliach is an extension of person who sent him. However, is the shliach allowed to be paid? (ie if he's coming from medinas hayam to deliver a get, ...
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Even though "ayn shliach l'dvar aveirah" does the person who sent him also get a punishment?
The Mishnah in Bava Kamma 59a tells us that if Reuven sent a חרש שוטה וקטן (a person who does not understand the repercussions of his actions or under Bar Mitzva) to do a destructive action e.g ...
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Are you allowed to request someone to buy a product that by law you would not be allowed to buy?
Follow up to this M.Y. question...
In most states, people under 18 aren't allowed to buy alcohol, because the law wants to discourage young kids from consuming it. The buying, per se, is not the ...
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Source why ביאה is not an option for שליח קידושין
This might sound a bit silly, but "that's the Torah and I need to learn it" (R"A).
A woman can be Mekudeshet in three ways which Halachah-wise are all equal (neither makes a better Kiddushin).
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Does a Shli'ach for carrying adopt the sender's designation of the item?
Mishnah Shabbos 10,1 says about מלאכת הוצאה:
"הַמַּצְנִיעַ לְזֶרַע וּלְדֻגְמָא וְלִרְפוּאָה, וְהוֹצִיאוֹ בְּשַׁבָּת, חַיָּב בְּכָל שֶׁהוּא. וְכָל אָדָם אֵין חַיָּב עָלָיו אֶלָּא כְשִׁעוּרוֹ.: &...
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Eating by someone with good intentions but poor knowledge
Is it, in principle, a problem to eat by a shomer-Shabbos Jew who has good intentions, but only basic knowledge of the laws of kashrus?
His involuntary sins--presumed, not known--are not a problem ...
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Why is an infant firstborn child not simply exempt from the firstborns' fast?
The Fast of the First Born was instituted for the day before the first Passover Seder.
I have an older brother, so I'm not obligated to fast then. But my first child was a son, and he is obligated to ...
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What are the parameters of "one should not return a ruinous report"?
The gemarah in Megillah (15a) states:
“And they told Esther’s words to Mordecai” (Esther 4:12), but he, Hathach himself, did not go to tell him directly. The Gemara explains: From here we see that ...
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Oversight in mikvah preparation; is her husband guilty?
Ordinarily, if we make an honest mistake in our efforts to do a mitzvah--or we do an inadvertent aveira--we are, at least to some extent, forgiven. In any case, our liability, and our obligation to ...
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Who can witness the sale of chametz?
Our shul's practice (which I imagine is very common) is for members of the community to appoint the rabbi as their agent for selling chametz. The rabbi then sells everything to a local priest, along ...
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Can someone else cut your fingernails on the "wrong" day?
There are many discussions of when the fingernails can and cannot be cut according to halacha and minhag. It is very hard to ascertain anything coherent from this information, other than that Friday ...
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Is every member of the community responsible for making his own eiruv tavshilin?
An eiruv tavshilin is made before Yom Tov in order to allow for cooking for Shabbat on Yom Tov.
However, once I told someone I was worried I had not made my eiruv tavshilin correctly, and the person ...
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Must there be explicit assigning of a Shaliach?
I don't really understand the laws of shlichut, designating a proxy to perform a mitzvah so I hope the question makes sense.
Does someone have to assign me the role of shaliach on his behalf, or can ...
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Using a gift with condition for Matanot L'Evyonim
(Related to this) I understand one can give matanot l'evyonim by way of a messenger.
I was given a gift this year for Purim -- someone gave me a $5 check with the recipient space left blank and told ...
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Does ordering shaloch manos before Purim fulfill the mitzvah?
I am wondering whether ordering shaloch manos for someone online actually fulfills the mitzvah of mishloach manos. This page says:
To fulfill the mitzvah of Mishloach Manot, one must send it during ...
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If you check for bugs according to halachic requirements, and then there is a bug in the food, are you liable?
If one or one's wife does everything that is needed for checking, but one accidentally eats a bug anyway, is one liable for the sin(s)?
I'd also be interested in knowing whether one would be liable ...
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Doing a Mitzva Yourself
Does Rambam ever mention (or reference) the principle that it is preferable to perform every mitzva oneself rather than through an agent? (See e.g. Kiddushin 41a).
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Can a shaliach assemble your mishloach manot for you?
I know that a shaliach (messenger) can deliver your mishloach manot. But can the shaliach also assemble it for you (under instruction for what to put in), and you'll still fulfill the mitzvah?
Here, ...
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Two brachos one mikvah
If I made a bracha and immersed two vessels, and then someone came over and asked me to immerse their vessel as well, since I did not have their vessel in mind, do I say a new bracha?
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The משלח is dead, long live the משלח!
Tosfos (Gittin 13a, s.v. לא יתנו) write that
דאע"ג שמינה המגרש בחייו השליח לא חשיב להיות כמותו אחר מותו כאילו הוא
עצמו קיים אלא חשיב גט לאחר מיתה
Even though the husband appointed his ...
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Can one do Nisuyin through a shliach?
One can do Kiddushin through a Shliach. Can one do Nisuyin through a Shliach?
Can one acquire a room and have the Shliach bring the bride into it?
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How does the Conservative Movement address issues with women leading davening?
The Conservative movement started to allow women to count in a minyan in 1973 without publishing a halachic justification. In 2002, Rabbi David Fine published a teshuva on the issues of women counting ...
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Who performed the bris of Abraham?
It is clear that Abraham understood the Torah, and that he waited to enact his bris until commanded, but who performed it? Did he do it himself, or was someone else instructed to do it, to serve in ...
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Vicariously placing stones on a grave
Can a kohen, or someone who will not have the opportunity to visit a grave for that matter, ask someone who will be visiting a grave to put stones there for him?
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Who keeps the second set of sneakers?
If I appoint an agent to go purchase a pair of sneakers for me and, upon arriving at the store the agent notices they are having a two-for-one sale (which I was not aware of), when the agent buys the ...
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Hanging mezuza for someone else - bracha?
If a visitor in someone else's home puts up a mezuza there, and the homeowner will not be home to hang it/make a bracha, does the visitor make the bracha when affixing it? Does it matter whether or ...
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Can a Gentile and Noahaide put a prayer note in the kotel
Can a Jew put a prayer note for Hashem on behalf of a gentile Noahide in the spaces of cracks of the Kotel, if that gentile is unable to go to Israel to do it himself? I know that any legitimate ...
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Appointing women as representatives of the congregation
There is a principle recorded in the Mishna, Rosh haShana 3:8, to the effect that a person can only vicariously exempt others from their responsibilities if he shares the same responsibilities that ...
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Why does God need Moshe to deliver the 10 plagues?
Why does Hashem command Moshe to perform each macah (plague)? Hashem can perform the Macot himself (by sending malachim).
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To what extent is someone on the way to do a mitzvah protected from danger?
Pesachim 8A (link) says:
R. Elazar taught that harm will not befall a Shali'ach (someone on the way to do a) Mitzvah!
That is a short excerpt from a discussion about being protected when doing a ...
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Location in Ohr Sameach of discussion of the nature of a messenger for a get
I've heard there is a discussion in the Ohr Sameach regarding when someone appoints a shliach (messenger) to divorce his wife, whether the person must use his own klaf (parchment) to write the get on ...
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Shliach for bedikas chometz -- making another shliach
Reuvan went away before Pesach and made Shimon a shliach (emissary) to be bodek (check) his home on lyl yud-daled (the night before Pesach) for chametz. (See beginning of Siman 436 and Mishneh Brurah ...
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Ownership of customer's chametz by a Jew owning a delivery receipt business
Recently our rabbi gave a lecture from the Mishna Brurah concerning the obligation to divest oneself of ownership and possession of chametz during Pesach. The rabbi noted that if you accepted ...
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Resuscitation of Aged Nursing Home Patients
Recently, there was a story about an 87-year-old woman who suffered a heart attack in a nursing home. The nursing home called 911 and the dispatcher begged the nurse to do CPR on the patient until the ...
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How can saying vidui for a dying person substitute for his own confession?
The Mishna at Sanhedrin 6:2 says that anyone who confesses his sins before dying has a share in the World to Come. The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch at 193:13 says that when visiting a sick person who is ...
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Is indirect matanot l'evyonim ok?
I was under the impression that the Purim mitzvah of matanot l'evyonim, giving gifts to the poor, had to be done directly -- find two or more poor people and give to them. This answer on a related ...
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Why does the mohel say the brocha at the bris?
Optimally, a father should circumcise his own sons. Optimally, an aliyah should read the Torah when called up. When we are called up for an aliyah, we say the brocha and the baal koreh reads for us. ...
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Why didn't Eliezer go straight to Avraham's family?
Avraham made Eliezer promise that he would only find a wife for Yitzchak from his family.
It seems to follow then, that as soon as Eliezer would arrive in Aram Naharaim he'd go straight to Avraham's ...