<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> R' Micha asks: <div>I hadn't heard, though, of a rabbi telling the person stuck in this<br> situation that he is not permitted to wear the accidentally<br> exchanged coat home.<br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">What do you think?</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">There are a couple of scenarios here as I see it.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">If the last coat left is not yours, then it is probably likely that someone else took yours.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">If the weather is cold, then for your own health, you should wear it.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">But then you should try to get the word out, either through the shul bulletin or word of mouth, that your coat was mistakenly taken</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">and you have someone else's.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Even if the weather is not bad, since your intention of taking someone else's coat is based on the belief that they have taken yours,</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">your intention is not g'eivus, but it could be looked upon as borrowing. And since the borrowing is based on someone else "borrowing"</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">your coat, it would seem to be mutar.</span></font></div></body></html>