The head of the Great Yeshiva in Beit Shemesh and the Rabbi of the Haredi community, Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, gave a general lesson last week at the Beit Shemesh Yeshiva Hall, and told of an interesting case he had, sitting as a judge in the Jerusalem Haredi community court.
The Rosh Yeshiva came to give a lesson on the issue being taught at the Yeshiva – Dinar Rocks, in Tractate Bava Matzia, while the Rosh Yeshiva was discussing the Shiur, In another type of currency.
Suddenly, when the Rabbi was discussing the words of the Garach, he recalled a case that happened to him in the Badatz, while he was sitting with his fellow Dayanim in Torah law and they charged one of the parties a fee.
“I will tell you an act that happened to me,” said the Rosh Yeshiva. According to Torah law, one must pay, and if he does not pay, the court will have to issue a letter of refusal. “
“And the next day,” said the Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva, “the defendant came to the court with sacks full of thousands of five agorot coins worth the money we owed him, and told the court that he was repaying his debt, claiming that one rabbi ruled that the coin was” five agorot. ” If he goes out of business (at the time), then it is a repayment and thus he gets his bill. “
“I called the bank,” said the head of the yeshiva, “to find out about the legal status of the ‘five agorot’ currency, and to check whether it is negotiable in all transactions. .
Here the Rosh Yeshiva rewarded the sides of the question in practice: “On the one hand this five-agorot coin is spent, but on the other hand it causes him trouble and expenses, because it was not possible to devalue the five-agorot coin anywhere, but only in the central bank, and the bank The center could not receive him immediately but after a week. “
After lengthy on the subject, the arbitrator decided during his lesson that this question is controversial and depends on the arbitrators’ dispute, and on the part of the halakhah it is appropriate to oblige the defendant to pay in embryo coins to the merchant in each store and not to pay in five agorot coins. Exempt the defendant for being ‘held’.