[Avodah] Kol haPosheit Yad

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 10:40pm EST, R Gershon Dubin wrote Areivim:
: Kol haposhet yad only means, AIUI, for oneself.  Not for a mosad, not
: even for a third party evyon.

It also means someone claiming poverty. Not someone collecting for
themselves for something other than need. If the guy says he's in need,
even it's dei machsero for a former gevir, give him. But if it's because
he wants to start learning full time, his desire to learn doesn't make
him an evyon.

Kol haposheit means not requiring an ishur, trusting everyone. "Ein
bodekim bema'os Purim". During the rest of the year, we have to give
anyone we're sure needs the money. You can't say that I'm supporting
Re'uvein and therefore I can turn Shim'on away without even a perutah. If
you acknowledge that Shim'on is actually needy. (Rama YD 249:4, although
it's implied in the SA as well.) This is why Chazal tell us to thank
the fakers, since they give us the heter not to give to an unknown
person.

Tzarich iyun if you can give a shaveh perutah of human contact. The SA
seems to say only if you don't have the actual perutah.

-Micha

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