It says רובם בגזל referring to the Jews, I believe. Also, doesn't כיבוש transfer ownership and make slavery, among many other evils, legitimate? And why only hadassim are mentioned in the Gemorah as being a problem?
It's true that כיבוש מלחמה can successfully transfer ownership to a king (or government), but it seems that the Or Zarua didn't think that was an issue for some reason. As an aside, I'm not sure Canada has ever experienced a real כיבוש מלחמה - in the aftermath of the wars we did have, private property was, for the most part, respected (although my wife and I did recently visit the ruins of a 200 year old lumber mill near Toronto that whose original owner had to abandon his property in a hurry and escape to the US after having been on the "wrong" side of the Rebellion of 1837).
Perhaps hadassim were singled out because they were more likely to be distributed by wholesalers who, therefore, had a practical alternative to finishing up the gezeila.
The truth is that I'm far from convinced that this is a serious halachic problem. But I'm very curious to understand why.
It says רובם בגזל referring to the Jews, I believe. Also, doesn't כיבוש transfer ownership and make slavery, among many other evils, legitimate? And why only hadassim are mentioned in the Gemorah as being a problem?
לא שבקת חיים לכל חי.
It's true that כיבוש מלחמה can successfully transfer ownership to a king (or government), but it seems that the Or Zarua didn't think that was an issue for some reason. As an aside, I'm not sure Canada has ever experienced a real כיבוש מלחמה - in the aftermath of the wars we did have, private property was, for the most part, respected (although my wife and I did recently visit the ruins of a 200 year old lumber mill near Toronto that whose original owner had to abandon his property in a hurry and escape to the US after having been on the "wrong" side of the Rebellion of 1837).
Perhaps hadassim were singled out because they were more likely to be distributed by wholesalers who, therefore, had a practical alternative to finishing up the gezeila.
The truth is that I'm far from convinced that this is a serious halachic problem. But I'm very curious to understand why.