Reply To: Saving shul seats, sidurrim for others not yet here

Someone at a kiddush that chapps away from the public a large amount of food (for others not in attendance yet) is a gonef. The food is stolen food – on which a brocha cannot be said! This food cannot be used as the seuda for kiddush – for kiddush b’mokom seuda. So go ahead and eat that kugel without a brocha,, and you were not be yotzei kiddush with that stolen platter of cake!

Erlich starts and ends in shul! The gonif in shul who steals public property will also be the gonif outside shul stealing public funds and from private people – because his individual wants and desires come before everyone else..

And the “baalei chesed” that ooze with helping others – as long as it does not involve their seats, I wonder how much chesed do you really have if you fail to be inconvenienced by a guest using your seat which was empty till you shhowed up at borchu?