Today's Halachos are dedicated by daily reader, Y.D., in memory of her dear husband
Asher Anshel Ben Nachum Arieh A"H
whose Yahrtzeit is today, 18 Menachem Av.
May his Neshama rise higher and higher in Gan Eden and may he be a Meilitz Yosher for his entire Mishpacha.
Halachos of Hashavas Aveidah
1) One who finds an object in a "safe place" such as in a flower pot, a crevice in a wall, a telephone booth, electricity panel, or any other place where it was seemingly placed there intentionally, even if it is questionable if it was placed there intentionally, it is prohibited to touch the item. This applies even if the item in question has a clear Siman, identifiable sign. (See Shulchan Aruch and Rama Choshen Mishpat Siman 260:9 and 10)
2) If one did not follow the aforementioned Halacha and indeed took the object from its place, if he just picked it up but did not walk away from the immediate area [or even if he walked away and appointed someone to stay there and inform him that the owner did not come to retrieve his item during the time that it was gone] he should put it back where he found it and be on his way. (Rama Choshen Mishpat Siman 260: 10 and Taz there, also quoted in Aruch HaShulchan Choshen Mishpat Siman 260:20)
If he already took it home, he should not go back there and put it back in the place where he found it.
Rather, if it's an item with a Siman, he should announce and let it be known that he found the item, if it does not have a Siman, he must hold on to the item until Eliyahu Hanavi arrives to identify the owner. (Rama ibid. See also Sm"a S"K 48. We will discuss the concept of "Holding the item and waiting for Eliyahu Hanavi" B'Ezras Hashem in the near future)
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QUESTION:
I'd like to know if it's permitted to use a dishwasher on shabbos if its goes on automatically (with a timer) in middle of the night (so nobody hears it), the dishes are the dishes that were used on shabbos and they will then be used again on shabbos?
ANSWER:
No, it is not permitted to have a dishwasher go on automatically with a time clock, nor is it permitted to have a non Jew turn on the dishwasher on Shabbos. (See Shemiras Shabbos Kehilchasa Chapter 12:35.)
According to Rav Moshe Feinstein Zatzal, no appliances may be operated via a time clock on Shabbos (Igros Moshe Orach Chaim Vol. 4 Siman 60) .
Though many Poskim are more lenient than Rav Moshe Zatzal for certain things, all agree that a dishwasher is not one of them.
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The Talmud (Sanhedrin 26b) states" Torah mateshes kocho shel adam, the Torah weakens a man's strength.
Why should this be?
Answer by HaRav Avigdor Miller Zatzal:
The Torah gives strength to a man. If you read Mishlei, you'll read that Torah is a man's life, eitz chaim he la'machzikim bo; it's a tree of life. It states, v'yosifu lecho sh'nos chaim, the Torah adds years of life to you. All of Mishlei is full of declarations that by learning and keeping the Torah, men are made more successful and happier in this world. So what does the gemara mean that Torah weakens a man's koach?
It means this: We were given energy. Food creates energy, and the purpose of gaining energy is to utilize it for good purposes. Now what is the purpose that uses up a man's energy most purposefully? That's the study of Torah.
If you're going to eat a meal and then you're going to learn, the bread and the meat or whatever you put inside of you, is now being put to the best possible use. Torah is weakening a man because it requires yegiah. Torah requires labor, and the labor of Torah utilizes your energy, but it doesn't mean you remain weak. You become tired, naturally; from working you become tired, and so you replenish that energy. But in the meantime when a man works off the energy from having good things to eat, he works it off on Torah, he doesn't have surplus energy to work off on wrong things.
Here you have a youth, walks out at night in the streets, they're full of food, they're full of candy and ice cream, they're full of nosherei, and now they have a lot of excess energy. So they want to work it off on the most useless and harmful things. Somebody told me, Mexican children don't swarm in the streets at night, because they're working hard all day long in order to have enough to eat. At night they're happy to go home and hit the hay. But America ruins youth, they have so much extra energy, eating all day long, so they go out into the streets looking for a thrill, and then they finally get ruined.
But if a person goes after a good meal to the third seder in the yeshiva, he works off the energy, Torah mateshes, it takes off the energy that could be turned into yetzer horah. The energy that you have from olam hazeh is transformed into Torah energy!
That's the very best way. In the end, he goes the sleep, the next day he's not going to be a weakling, he'll get up the next day healthier than the bums and tramps who wasted their evenings by superfluous food and drinks and maybe things much worse than that and going to sleep late at night.
Even a person that goes late to sleep because of learning Torah, that's the wonderful thing about Torah, you never overdo it. When it comes to learning Torah you never overdo it, you know when to go to sleep.
Therefore Torah doesn't weaken anybody, Torah nosenes chaim l'oseha, gives more life.
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