May a person who donates land for a synagogue retract his donation or change its purpose?
Synopsis
The Mechaber rules that a donor who pledges land for a synagogue cannot retract even if the original purpose becomes impossible. The community may change it to a beit midrash if the donor lives elsewhere, but not if he is a local resident and objects—unless a Torah scholar (or shiva tuvei ha'ir) is present.
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