[Avodah] $100,000 Check Found in Western Wall

[Micha Berger]

I would have figured the check isn't necessarily "heqdeish" in quotes,
but could be *actual* heqdeish. The maintanance of the wall around Har
haBayis is part of bedeq habayis.

So, I see three possibilities (if the story were real):

1- He said it's for the kotel, and thus the money is for bedeq habayis
and actual heqdesh.

2- We assume that stam giving money to the kotel means the kotel
authority and thus includes the plaza, not just Har haBayis.

For that matter machatzis hasheqel money can be spent on maintaining
any of Y-m (ignoring the question of what the definition of Y-m would
be bizman hazeh), does anyone if that applies to money being maqdish
lesheim bedeq habayis in general?

The kotel plaza is within Ezra's Y-m.

But it would seem R' Yuval Cherlow would hold that money given to the
Kotel Authority is not heqdeish. The natural assupmtion -- I would just
like to discuss the sevara.

3- The check is an invalid shetar, an asmachta, since the writer
didn't expect anyone to pick it out of the wall.

-Micha

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