I took 9 items instead of 10
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Question
Shalom
I paid in the supermarket for 10 items and by mistake took only 9. Is it permitted the next day to come and take the missing one, or is this considered a case of "עביד איניש דינא לנפשיה" ("a person carries out judgment for himself") and therefore forbidden, as explained in the Rema, Choshen Mishpat, siman 4, that with an unspecified object it is forbidden to take what is one’s own?
I paid in the supermarket for 10 items and by mistake took only 9. Is it permitted the next day to come and take the missing one, or is this considered a case of "עביד איניש דינא לנפשיה" ("a person carries out judgment for himself") and therefore forbidden, as explained in the Rema, Choshen Mishpat, siman 4, that with an unspecified object it is forbidden to take what is one’s own?
Answer
Shalom u-vracha
You are permitted to take the missing item.
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