[Avodah] Halachic who is right from "The Lost Scotch"

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:34:54PM -0000, Chana Luntz wrote:
: First of all, and only being slightly cute here - at the time that this
: all occurred, Yehoshua was already married to Devorah and ishto k'gufo.
: Yehoshua may have been surprised by the appearance of Chaim ben Zundel,
: but the Yehoshua/Devorah combination was not.

I think this is meaningful, and wish you hadn't stated it so cutely.
It deserves serious consideration.

Who is the BHB? The couple as a unit did mess up.

Nistapkha sadeihu doesn't seem fair to the singer, who turned down jobs.
How common must something be for it to be an implicitely assumed risk?
Is it relevent that the norm is for the chasan or the chasan's side to
hire the singer?

For that matter, the kallah KNEW there would be some singer who wouldn't
be canceled, the loss was caused directly by her actions. She should
be the one mechuyeves to pay sechar bitul. They had the combined money
already comitted to pay both singers, this is an attempt to recoup
money already set aside.

(And if this is about to become a kollel couple, they had /better/ take
the concept of sechar bitul seriously.)

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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