R. Ovadya Yosef on Diverting Money to Another Communal Project (8 Av)

שו"ת יביע אומר חלק ז סימן כ"ה 8 Av 5732 (1972)

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​The Jewish community of Tehran, in 1972, needed to expand its synagogue and build a new mikveh (and had been collecting for the project for ten years!). Could they use the money for other things, now that that fundraising effort had failed?