Take the tour ×  My family is not frum, and my grandfather gives
out money to all the grandchildren at our seder. I refused the
money, but my father took it and put it in my room. Can I use
this money?  share|improve this question a non halachik gut
reaction -- your grandfather has declared this money no longer
in his property. once the holiday is over and you "find" it and
know that no one will be claiming it (it is not lost thus
needing to be returned), why can't you use it? you didn't take
possession on yom tov. but that's just off the cuff. –  Danno
Apr 11 '12 at 2:25 add comment  1 Answer  up vote 3 down vote
accepted  Seems like it should be no worse than the case where a
Jew deliberately violates Shabbos by cooking food, where someone
else is allowed to eat that food as soon as Shabbos ends
(Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 307:1).  [Taz (:1) and Shach (:2)
say that the reason why in this case we don't require waiting
after Shabbos for the time it takes for the melachah to be
performed (as is true if a non-