[Avodah] Trick or treat?

[Joel Rich]

Interesting in C”M 267 we see that originally a middling identification
mark was considered sufficient to return a lost object. However, when
tricksters became more numerous, the court determined that it would require
witnesses as well.

It makes me wonder what caused the increase in tricksters and how perceived
permanent had the increase to be in order to have required such an
enactment. What were the causes? Could the causes be cultural, economic,
God-fearingness levels, or something else altogether. What was the trigger
event or level that made the court determine that this was a permanent
change that needed a permanent enactment? I don’t think anybody knows the
answer but this is a subset of a more general question about courts and
subjectivity and when to intervene in the system which had existed from har
sinai.


KT
Joel Rich
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