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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I note that Rav Henkin in Benei Banim (chelek sheni siman 47) has a teshuva<br>on whether a school is permitted to take away objects from their talmidim
<br>and only return them after a number of days or weeks or if they improve<br>their ways and he comes out very strongly against the practice, on the<br>grounds that it is a violation of lo signov. And he holds that neither the
<br>justification that a) it is done for the good of the talmid nor that b) the<br>object will be returned at the end of some days is a valid excuse.</blockquote>
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<div>In the "Halachos of other people's money" (Rabbi Bodner) he quotes R' Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, Pischei Choshen, as well as Shu"t Mishne Halachos as holding that since the Rebbe has license to strike a Talmid (Yoreh Deah 245,10), it is a fortiori that he may confiscate his property. If the desired Chinuch effect can be achieved if returned later, that should be done. But if the effectivity is only through permanent confiscation, this is allowed as well (R' Zalman Nechemia).
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