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town scholar supervising the handling of the community’s needs, in the town in which the charity was collected. However, if there is a town scholar there, the money should be given to the town scholar, and he may use it as he sees fit. Since, in this case, the money had been given to Rav Huna, th
Mishnah: They may not sell a sacred object belonging to the community to an individual, even if the object will still be used for the same purpose, due to the fact that by doing so they downgrade its degree of sanctity, as an item used by fewer people is considered to have a lower degree of sanct
Talmud: The Talmud asks: The Rabbis are saying well to R' Meir, as they provided a rational argument for their opinion. How could R' Meir counter their claim? The Talmud answers: R' Meir holds that when a sacred object is transferred from a large town to a small town, there is no significant down
And the Rabbis, how could they respond to R' Meir’s claim? If there is cause to be concerned about the decrease in the number of people who will use the object when it is transferred from a community to an individual, then in a case like this as well, where the object is transferred to a smaller c
Mishnah: They may sell a synagogue only with a stipulation that if the sellers so desire it, the buyers will return it to them; this is the statement of R' Meir. And the Rabbis say: They may sell a synagogue with a permanent sale for any usage, except the following 4 things, which would be an aff