Questions tagged [transactions]
buying, selling, etc.
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Texting/phone calls greetings and business
Is one allowed to text/call someone else before shacharit to greet them or do business? Would it be different from regular speech or no? And this is in a case without financial loss to be clear.
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Freeing a slave by kinyan
Gittin 39b tells the story of a slavewoman whose master attempted to free her by giving her his hat. But this wasn’t valid because it was HIS hat. For the transfer to be valid, the object would have ...
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Can you buy clothes during the Nine Days, for a job interview during the Nine Days, if you lack any appropriate clothing?
Imagine that an unemployed person suddenly gets a job interview scheduled for two days before Tisha B'Av, but doesn't have something appropriate to wear to the interview.
May he/she buy new clothing ...
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Kashrus status of Yogurtland
I am trying to get some more insight into the Kashrus status of Yogurtland, and other similar frozen yogurt franchises. I know that many (if not all) of their flavors are listed on the KSA's website ...
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Torah as a bar metzra
The Gemara in Shabbos 88b, shows a famous dialogue between Moshe Rabbeinu and the melachim, when Moshe ascended to the Heavens, after Matan Torah.
And Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said: When Moses ...
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Acquiring assets by looking at it and saying "pick it up for me"
The Mishnah in Bava Metzia, perek 1:3 says:
If one was riding on an animal and saw a found item, and said to another person who was walking beside him: Give it to me, if the pedestrian took it and ...
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What is ma'amad sh'loshtan and where in Rambam is it defined?
In Sheluchin veShuttafin 3:7 (also other places in Rambam) ma'amad sh'loshtan is mentioned
The only way a person can transfer ownership of a debt is through a
ma'amad sh'loshtan - which is a dictate ...
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Obligation to Purchase Sta"m from non-Jew
According to a halacha I read,
There is an obligation to purchase any Sta”m which is in the possession of a non-Jew. If such items remain in his possession, they may become desecrated. If the non-Jew ...
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Kinyan agav for mishloach manos
I know it's not timely, but this is a question I had thought about this past Purim. I already have some developed ideas, but I'm interested in hearing the oilam's thoughts. And the same question could ...
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When did publishers stop asserting a monopoly on printings of books in the common domain?
Usually, when a book is published, it reflects the original creative work of scholars, authors and editors who deserve the benefit of that work. So naturally it’s understood that other parties are not ...
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Mechirat Chametz on Internet
I see that many Jewish sites make Mechirat Chametz on the Internet.
I know that traditionally, people make the sale by writing a Shtar and using a Kinyan Sudar to make the Rav a Shaliach to sell the ...
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Are these bicycles hefker?
I work on a University campus. Adjacent to my building is a bicycle rack, to which several bikes have been locked since the start of the academic year (end of August). It's clear that these bikes have ...
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Jumping elephants
There has been a conflict for a while between Orthodox Jews, some of them gedolim, concerning works by a certain author. One of the points of conflict is something he said about a Tosefos in Kiddushin ...
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Midrash on the sale of the Machpelah Cave
A few days ago I saw in a library book a midrash on the sale of the Machpelah Cave. The midrash detailed the names of the four witnesses who signed their names on the deed. Unfortunately, I returned ...
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(Auto)paying for chametz on Pesach [duplicate]
My understanding is that one only acquires movable objects, such as food items, by moving them physically (e.g. lifting or pulling them; or by acquiring them along with land; or via chalipin exchange, ...
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What is the ruling on selling dogs?
If I understand correctly as long as the breed of dog isn’t considered vicious then owning it would be okay but not ideal,
But would one be allowed to sell a dog/puppy and benefit from its sale?
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Do the Sources include any halacha on insurance companies?
Is there any evidence that they had insurance companies, with policies and premiums, in biblical or Talmudic times? If so, what halachic constraints were placed on these practices?
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Mishnayos Set- Many Commentaries
Does anyone know if there are any Mishnayos sets which have both the Rash Mishantz and the late commentaries? Basically a normal mishnayos set combined with the mishnayos printed in the gemara sets?
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Buying commodities of lean hogs
Is there any halachic problem with buying or selling commodities of lean hogs?
Commodities are similar to the stock exchange, except one trades commodities such as wheat or crude oil.
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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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Is an "Ateret Chatan" only for Chassanim?
I really like the kind of atara for a tallis that has rows of metal squares (like this). On this link, it is called an "Ateret Chatan" and the description says "A popular addition to a tallis for a ...
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Is it forbidden to buy bad merchandise in order to get a refund?
The background:
I bought neodymium magnets from China off of ebay.
The magnets were NOT neodymium and the item was not as good as I expected.
This is a common Chinese practice on ebay. The Chinese ...
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OK to pay for minyan?
If a minyan is needed and can't easily be found, is it OK to pay Jews to attend, who would not come otherwise? And is a negotiation on the price seemly?
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Paying taxes to a corrupted government [duplicate]
There are many countries with corrupted governments who steal taxpayers' money. Is one still obliged to pay taxes if the government is corrupted and steals a big fraction of the taxes one pays? What's ...
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Would buying kosher meat serve as identifying one as being a "religious jew"? [closed]
Suppose if one is shopping at a grocery store and is checking out with food including kosher meat. If that person isn't wearing any other Jewish signs (e.g tzitzis, kippah, etc.), is that enough to "...
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"A y'vama acquires herself through chalitza", really?
The first mishnayos of Kidushin, in Sefaria's Silverstein translation, bracketed remarks omitted:
A woman is acquired in three ways, and she acquires herself in two ways. She is acquired by money, by ...
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What are the 10 kinyanim with buying and selling? [closed]
Can someone please provide for me a list of the 10 kinyanim with their names in Hebrew? I can't find one anywhere! thanks.
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Can you buy chametz during Pesach that will be delivered after Pesach?
As an example, during Hol Hamo'ed Pesach, could you buy chametz online knowing that it will arrive after Pesach?
My assumption is that it would be OK, as the buyer doesn't actually own the product ...
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When do you own the food in your farm-share box?
In a farm share (CSA, community-supported agriculture), at the beginning of a season you subscribe to and pay for a share, and then you receive regular deliveries of whatever food those farms produced ...
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Selling chametz if two people share a house?
I was just wondering a general law about the sale of chametz (specifically through chabad.org but also in general), that if two people jointly own a house, then should they each individually fill out ...
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How to understand this Tosfos in Megila 5b
This is a Tosfos from Megilah 5b which is talking about lessening the different type of work(s) of simcha on Purim. However, I'm a bit troubled on understanding the last 6 words. What does Tosfos mean?...
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Is selling something at a large profit ona'ah (wronging another)?
What would sources say about the following scenario: let’s say you buy a pen for about $20 and two erasers for $5 each, equaling $30 in total. The person who bought these things sells them for $40, ...
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Selling an electronic cigarette to a minor
Is it a sin to sell an electronic cigarette it to a minor?
Please cite sources.
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Doing Business with a Jew
The Gemorah in Bava Metzia 71a teaches that one must give preference to a Jew when offering out loans even when it will cause a loss to the lender since he won't be able to charge interest.
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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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Getting something that requires you to be over 18 when you’re not
Are there any sources that would constitute the following as stealing/gezel: If one buys a product that the website requires one to be 18 years or older to purchase and is underage? So let’s say you ...
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Halachic issues with buying an item for cheap when owner doesnt know true value
What are the halachic problems that arise when one buys an item at a discount but the owner is unaware of the true value? This can apply to a yard sale where one buys a coin that they know is worth ...
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Buying online on friday
Can you buy something from a large online retailer (eg Amazon), which employs non-Jews, on Friday if it has one-day shipping?
This would force someone to do the work of mailing/transporting the ...
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Halachot of standing in a supermarket line
Looking for a Shu"T that covers the following issues of standing in a supermarket line (assuming there are no Dina DM laws covering that):
Is standing in a line a sort of Kinyan? Is it a monetary ...
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May a seller offer a reward on a sale, which he explicitly limits only to cash (not credit) sales?
It is forbidden to explicitly set two tiered pricing for sales, A lower price for cash payment & a higher price for credit (delayed) payment. The additional payment for credit is considered ribbis ...
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Buying items on Shabbos and paying after
Is it permissible to make up with a non-Jewish store owner before Shabbos that you will take items from his store on Shabbos and pay for them after Shabbos?
If not - is it rabbinic or biblical? May ...
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Can one invest in a Jewish-controlled company which performs work on Shabbas?
Is a Jew permitted to invest in shares of a company if the company performs work on shabbas and a non-orthodox Jew started the company and is a major shareholder yet owns less than 50% of the shares ...
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How did Hevel acquire his flock?
In Bereishit 4:2-4 we read that Hevel was a keeper of sheep and that he offered from the firstlings of his flock. How did he come to acquire the flock? Did he have to trap them and domesticate them or ...
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Question of Ribbis (interest) with personal use of employer's gasoline and reimbursement using his own credit card
Someone travels to work out of town with his own car. He received a credit card from his employer to pay for the gas for the trip to and from the workplace and his home.
The employer does not mind if ...
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Internet shopping after browsing in a store
This question is acutely relevant today. You are shopping for something. Your plan is to go to a lot of brick-and-mortar stores, see the item, feel it, ask the salespersons lots of questions, then ...
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Can you accept money for your chametz items during Pesach?
You sold your chametz to a non-Jew, directly.
During Hol Hamo'ed, the non-Jew comes to your home and says he wants your $500 single malt scotch, and he writes you a check for it. He walks out with ...
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Why is it not ribis to offer a volume discount?
Exactly why is it not ribit to charge disproportionately more for a single item than for each unit in a bulk purchase? Of course, I'm talking about Jews' selling to each other.
People have requested ...
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How do matanos laevyonim services work behind the scenes?
Many shuls and organizations provide a way to fulfill matanos laevyonim by giving online or sending a check made out to the organization.
How does this work? Is it as simple as "you're enabling them ...
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Different things falling through the air
Rava has a question: What is the halacha regarding something which you throw through a house, that goes in one window and out the other? Do we say that something that passes through the house's ...
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Are you responsible for damage your driverless car causes?
Driverless cars are in the process of becoming a reality and it is a matter of time before they are a mainstream product. These car are pre-programmed to make certain decisions in the case of imminent ...
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