Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz
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You didn't know that it was there.
So that you're not going to be chayiv for.
That's an ones kein geneva, not an ones kein aveda.
And therefore, you know, the classic case I think that they give is someone puts down, I think, this must have been a Shiloh once, like,
So therefore, all the posts can use this example.
They talk about someone puts down their glasses on a chair and someone else comes and sits on that chair.
So you're not expecting a pair of glasses to be on the chair.
So you break the glasses.
So if Reuven leaves his glasses on the chair and Shul and Shimon sat on them and broke them, if Shimon didn't notice the glasses on the chair...
before sitting down, since it's not normal for people to keep breakable things on chairs in shul, Shimon can say that I wasn't negligent at all.
I had no reasonable expectation that it would be there, and therefore I'm going to be putter.
And that is exactly what the Gemara says.
If you noticed that the glasses were there, and then you forgot that they were there, and you ended up sitting on them accidentally, then Reuven can say, well, wait just a minute, a little more care, and you would have noticed it.
Meaning, and you would have remembered.
That's Oneskein Aveda.
you know, just a little more focus, a little more paying attention to someone else's stuff, and you could have avoided this damage.
So if that's the case, then I would bring it back to our case of the car.
that if the person left a car on the sidewalk, hard to imagine that you didn't notice it.
So while it's not right for him to have left it there, it's wrong for him to have left it there, but if you noticed it, a little more care.