Q. I was going to a Vasikin minyan and the Rabbi was paying me through a yungerman (young man) who was giving me the money. The Rabbi was hospitalized and the yungerman tells me to give back the last few payments because he was actually giving from his own money and relying on the Rabbi to pay him, which apparently he cannot do now.
I have no information at all about the Rabbis condition. Am I obligated to believe him and return it to him, or can I tell him to go sort it with the Rabbi?

A. As we have mentioned in many other Shailos that involve monies and different people and their claims. These questions should be answered only by a Rabbi or a Beis Din that can hear all the claims and opinions involved and then issue a correct and fair decision. The same applies here.

Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is similar.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a