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Is there a source for owning property in Israel means keeping 1 day yom tov
R Eliezer Melamed (Peninei Halacha Moadim 9:8) writes indeed
If one buys an apartment in Eretz Yisrael and lives there during his
visits, he is considered a resident of Eretz Yisrael while there.
R ...
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Can you acquire land merely by using it?
Hazaka only works with the original owner's consent.
Rambam, Laws of Sales Chapter 1:
א,ז [ח] כיצד בחזקה: מכר לו בית או שדה, או נתן אותן מתנה--כיון שנעל או גדר או פרץ כל שהוא, והוא שיועיל במעשיו-...
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When selling a house, what pieces of furniture go with it?
The Rambam (in Hilchot Mechira 25:5) brings the following halacha
When a person sells a house, he also sells the oven, the range, the
door frames that are attached with mortar, the door, the beam,...
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Did converts (ger tzedek) in ancient Israel own land?
Ma'aser Sheini 5:14 says clearly that converts do not get a portion in the land.
מִכָּאן אָמְרוּ, יִשְׂרָאֵל וּמַמְזֵרִים מִתְוַדִּים, אֲבָל לֹא גֵרִים וְלֹא עֲבָדִים מְשֻׁחְרָרִים, שֶׁאֵין לָהֶם ...
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Measuring Levi's cities
The reason you didn't see the cities' sizes being determined is that the cities were existing cities allocated by lottery to the different sons of Levi according to the size of the tribe giving them ...
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Why didn't our forefathers buy land in the Holy land?
It would have made absolutely no difference during the conquest if the Jews would show up ~400 years later to claim that they 'purchased and owned the land', just like it made no difference when Jews ...
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Shipping a package to an empty house
A July 2018 Yeshiva World piece by R' Yair Hoffman explores whether trespassing on someone else's property briefly without their permission (in that case, to park your car) is permissible. He ...
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Is taking control of land by a Jew in Israel a sin if it was not controlled by him before?
I will start by addressing the specific question that you have asked here: "According to Halacha, is it a sin for a Jew to take control over some land in Eretz Yisrael when this land was taken against ...
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What if a Levite acquired property?
The status of land transferred between tribes through inheritance is dealt with in the Mishna Arakhin 33b. This is how the Rambam rules (Yovel 13:8-9 (English)):
ישראל שירש את אבי אימו לוי--הרי זה ...
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How early can I take down my mezuzos before a move?
R Eliyahu Yaniger, a sofer at mezuzah.net (question 78) writes
Your mezuzot should remain in the house as long as you are living
there. Ownership is not what matters, but whether you are actually
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Can you acquire land merely by using it?
I will tray to give a different response (see my 2 comments above). A first step is to talk about the topic with a minimum of technical terms.
A deed of acquisition is generally a symbolic act, a ...
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Can you acquire land merely by using it?
"that if you publicly use property long enough without anybody objecting, it's yours even if you can't show proof of a transaction."
There actually is such a concept in Halacha. It's also called "...
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Who owns the air above a balcony (to build a Succah)?
In the specific case which the poster describes the building is built in such a way to allow each neighbor to have a Succah area. Thus the upper neighbor does not have a right to block his lower ...
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Pharaoh's adjective change to Yosef
I would argue that the two verses are not talking about the same thing. The verse in 45:18 is saying that the brothers will eat of the fat of the land. It is not talking about the land itself; it is ...
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Prophesy in the book of Ezekiel
RaDa”Q (R’ Dawidh Qimhi), commenting on Yehezqel 47:23, writes (my translation):
והיה בשבט אשר גר הגר אתו - כי לעתיד בצאת ישראל מהגלות יודעו השבטים, אף על פי שהם מעורבים עתה ולא ידעו איש את שבטו, ...
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How is Dina d’malkhuta transferred from one nation/state/malkutha to another?
It appears we basically follow a de facto recognition of who's currently governing, not a de jure one; and the facts are determined by economics.
Rambam, end of Ch. 5 of Laws of Theft and Loss:
ה,...
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Keeping real estate in Israel
See gemara bava basra 122a that it will be reapportioned but it's possible that if one happens to own real estate where his shevet is given its portion, he might get lucky and end up keeping it if he ...
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Why didn't our forefathers buy land in the Holy land?
If you were told by Ribbono Shel Olam that your descendents starting with your grandchildren would be slaves in a land not their own for 400 years and would emerge with great wealth and recieve the ...
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Measuring Levi's cities
We might add that walled cities in Eretz Yisroel are usually built on hilltops with the walls at the edge of the platue. Yerushalaim is a striking example. The end of the city is a natural boundary.
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How the tribes' borders were determined?
Yehoshua chapters 13 - 19 gives a detailed description of the borders and cities of each tribe’s portion in the land, as was allocated to them by Moshe (in Transjordan) or by the lottery conducted by ...
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What difference does which kind of land you pay with make?
A few days ago I wrote:
In an agrarian society, it hurts more to lose a really nice piece of land, even if your rational brain knows it's worth just as much as that bigger piece of land you still own....
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Must one inform the owner if you damaged and repaired the property?
No, he does not say nothing to the owner. It seems that reparation of damage is similar to restitution of a stolen object. To inform the owner appear only to be directed to avod a new loss ot the ...
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Must one inform the owner if you damaged and repaired the property?
I don't know of a source that discusses this case, but I do know of a similar case. What if I stole something of yours and returned it without your knowledge? This is possibly a Machlokes between R' ...
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Are there special Halachos for homeowners?
One of the very important things a person should do after becoming a homeowner is celebrate a Chanukas Habayis. He should show gratitude and appreciation for the great favor which Hashem has bestowed ...
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Can one sell his BAR-METZRA rights to a non-neighbor?
As has been mentioned here many a time, Wikipedia is not considered a good source for accuracy in Torah related information. But just as a starting platform Wikipedia cites a dispute among the ...
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Can one be allowed to use a house for free because he is able to use that house for free?
He shouldn't have to pay.
You have to first understand what the gemara means in that the sqautter is not receiving benefit. Of course he's receiving benefit! He's living in a house! He's not out in ...
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Can a Ger Toshav own land in Eretz Yisrael?
R Shlomo Riskin (the Chief Rabbi of Efrat in Israel) writes indeed that a ger toshav can own land in Eretz Israel
According to Rambam [Avodat Kochavim 10:6], the very term ger toshav, stranger-...
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Where did the Jews live at the time of Joshua before their portion was conquered?
In Yehoshua (perek 12), there are listed all the kings that Yehoshua and benei yisrael conquered after entering C’naan. It ends by saying:
מֶ֥לֶךְ תִּרְצָ֖ה אֶחָ֑ד כָּל־מְלָכִ֖ים שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים ...
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Selling land to Gentile to build Church
In Iggrot Moshe (OC 3:28) Rav Moshe takes a question from Rabbi Gedalia Anemer. At the time Rabbi Anemer ZT"L was the rabbi of a congregation where the population had migrated away from where the shul ...
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