If Ruven throws Shimon’s laptop from a window (while Shimon is watching*) and Levi catches it — let’s say if Levi can keep it, because the laptop is hefker, does Ruven have to pay Shimon for the laptop? Ruven can tell Shimon: “Why do I have to pay? I didn’t break the laptop.”
Update: I was asked: “Which laptop?” Why, MacBook Air, naturally.
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* Shimon has to be watching, so that he can do yeush on his laptop while it’s flying out of the window and make it hefker.
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You're a strange man.
That’s your answer to my halachic shaila?
Delve into it.
I have and probably know the answer.
Congrats.
I don't think Levi can keep it.
You'r not miyayish on something while it is falling. Only once it goes splat.
Levi has to return it as it is an avayda and if he doesn't then the one who threw it from the window needs to pay for it.
But if the flying laptop is as if already broken (to the point that if I actually break it with a baseball bat or ball, I did not officially break it), doesn't this mean that seeing it fly down is enough to me'yaesh it?
Re: paying: I agree. Seemingly, it's no different from throwing an object that is not damaged by water into ocean. I didn't break it, but I made it lost for its owner, so I have to pay.
I think there is a sugya in gittin which is revelant.
Let me get back to you.
TRS, what were blogs created for if not for discussing Hashem’s Will and Wisdom on them?
What do you want from me?
What does the Rebbe want from you?
How's this connected to anything...?
Isn’t it connected to everything?
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