[Avodah] Coat Room Mix-up

[t613k at aol.com]

>> This situation comes up in shul pretty  often. There aren't that
many different styles of men coat, and  it sometimes happens that
someone looks through the coat room  and realizes that the only
remaining coat was one similar to  theirs. Someone who left already
took with the wrong  coat.

I hadn't heard, though, of a rabbi telling the person  stuck in this
situation that he is not permitted to wear the  accidentally
exchanged coat home.

What do you  think?

-- 
Micha  Berger             

 
>>>>>>
I think if it is so bitter cold outside that it would be dangerous to walk  
home without a coat, he should wear the coat home (but bring it back to 
shul as  soon as he possibly can).  Otherwise he should not wear the coat that 
does  not belong to him.  The other guy made an honest mistake and did not  
realize he was wearing a coat that did not belong to him, thus his sin was  
beshogeg.   You, however, do know that this coat in the coat room does  not 
belong to you, so if  you wear it, you are using someone's  property without 
permission and that is bemezid.
 
 

--Toby  Katz
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