– Q. A good friend left his raincoat in shul during last week or maybe it was on Friday night. I found it. Can I wear it home on a the early sunny Shabbos afternoon to return it to him, or should I be concerned that people will laugh at me and I might just take it off and come to carry on Shabbath? (No Eiruv here yet).

A. For the great mitzva of returning a lost item, our Rabbonim maintain that in our days, when people as is, do and wear strange items, it could be done. If possible you may better bring it back to its owner after davening Maariv, at the end of Shabbos.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.