[Avodah] HASHOVAS AVEIRAH

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 03:04:39PM -0400, Cantor Wolberg wrote:
: Second question: An impoverished old Jewish pauper who is completely  
: unobservant (either out of choice or whatever) has a bag of groceries  
: containing treif meat. You notice that the person lost the bag. You  
: find the bag with the person's credit card (that's how you know it  
: belongs to Mrs. Treif). Do you return the bag? You obviously must  
: return the credit card. What would you do according to your  
: understanding of halacha?

Buy (from my own money or fundraise) an equivalent bad of kosher meat
and leave that at their door.

BALM vs BALC do at times conflict, but more often the choices are a
false dichotomy.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha