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Questions? Comments? We love feedback! Email us at info@baishavaad.org Rav Aryeh FinkelQuestion: I built an extension on my house and made a new laundry room. My wife put the first load of laundry into the new washing machine and set the machine on the cold cycle. When she opened it at the end of the cycle, she realized that the plumber had mixed up the hot and cold water pipes, which had caused...

Questions? Comments? We love feedback! Email us at info@baishavaad.org Rav Aryeh FinkelQuestion: Someone removed a railing from a second-floor balcony and someone else fell and got hurt. Is he liable as a mazik?Similarly, someone opened a safety gate on top of the stairs and a child fell and got hurt. Is the one who opened the gate liable?Answer: The chiyuv of bor is not only when one digs a pit;...

Questions? Comments? We love feedback! Email us at info@baishavaad.orgRav Aryeh FinkelQuestion: Someone is driving and suddenly stops in the middle of the road. The driver behind him isn’t able to brake in time and hits him from behind, which causes substantial damage to the second driver’s car. Is the car that is parked in the middle of the road considered a bor, which would mean that he is...

Questions? Comments? We love feedback! Email us at info@baishavaad.orgRav Aryeh FinkelQuestion: Someone dug a hole in the middle of the street. A fellow walks by and falls in. The fall causes him to chip his tooth. This tooth happened to be an implant. Since bor is potur on keilim, would the digger be exempt from paying for the damage to the implant?Answer: The question is if something attached...

Questions? Comments? We love feedback! Email us at info@baishavaad.org Rav Aryeh FinkelQuestion: Reuven owns a Roomba vacuum cleaner, which rolls by itself across the floor of his house. He brought it over to his neighbor’s house to demonstrate to them how it works. During his demonstration, it vacuumed up a child’s gold earring and they were unable to retrieve it. Is Reuven liable to pay for the...

Questions? Comments? We love feedback! Email us at info@baishavaad.org Question: Yaakov and Yehuda are friends who enjoy playing pranks on each other. One day, Yaakov put down his cell phone on the edge of a table. Yehuda noticed this and called the phone, causing it to vibrate and fall of the table. It hit the ground and the screen shattered. Is Yehuda liable to pay for the damages?Answer: The...

Questions? Comments? We love feedback! Email us at info@baishavaad.org Rav Aryeh FinkelQuestion: My bank offered a $750 promotion to any account holder who keeps $20,000 in his account for 90 days. I deposited that amount of money and told my secretary to make sure not to pay any bills from that account for 90 days. She didn’t listen and paid a bill from that account, which caused me to lose the...

Questions? Comments? We love feedback! Email us at info@baishavaad.org Rav Aryeh FinkelQuestion: There is a threshold of how much investment income a taxpayer can have and still be eligible for the Earned Income Credit. Reuven told his money manager to make sure he doesn’t go over that threshold, as it would not be worthwhile to lose out on the credit. The money manager disobeyed his instructions...

Questions? Comments? We love feedback! Email us at info@baishavaad.org Question: A man owns a factory which doesn’t allow employees to bring cell phones onto the floor. He has a big clock – the only clock on the floor – which everything runs in accordance to. He hired someone to put up the clock and that worker didn’t set the time correctly. As a result of the clock being half an hour slow,...

Questions? Comments? We love feedback! Email us at info@baishavaad.org Rav Aryeh FinkelQuestion: A driver makes a turn and accidentally sideswipes a parked car. He leaves a note on the windshield with his phone number and starts to drive away. Suddenly, he sees another car plow into the same parked car and total it. The owner of the car has his vehicle declared a total loss by the insurance...