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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><BR> >> This situation comes up in shul pretty
often. There aren't that<BR> many different styles of men coat, and
it sometimes happens that<BR> someone looks through the coat room
and realizes that the only<BR> remaining coat was one similar to
theirs. Someone who left already<BR> took with the wrong
coat.<BR><BR> 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><BR>What do you
think?<BR><BR>-- <BR>Micha
Berger
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><BR></FONT><B><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby
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