Wikipedia's first sentence called it “concept in the talmud regarding a jew who loses an object”. Today it says “gone forever”.
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Yeiush ( Hebrew : יֵאוּשׁ , romanized : yēʾuš , lit. ' despair ' ), accepting a lost item is gone forever, is a concept in the Talmud regarding a Jew who loses an object ( Hebrew : אֲבֵדָה , romanized : ʾəḇēḏā , lit. ' loss ' ), and another Jew finds it when the Jew who lost it is determined to have given up on the object. The general rule is that the original owner's yeiush releases the object into the public domain, thereby allowing a finder of the object to keep it and releasing the finder from the obligation to return it to the original owner. There is: " Yeiush shelo mida'at " meaning a person declares hope lost without knowledge (or awareness of what happened to the lost object.) " Yeiush mida'at " meaning hope is declared lost with knowledge (or the intent of the owner to give up possession.)
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Yiush is a concept in the Talmud regarding a Jew who loses an object ( aveidoh ) and another Jew finds it and the person who lost it is determined to have given up on the object. The general rule is that the original's owners "yiush" (giving up hope on finding the object) releases the object into the public domain, thereby allowing a finder of the object to keep it and releasing the finder from the obligation to return it to the original owner. There is: " Yiush shelo m'daas " meaning a person declares hope lost without knowledge (or awareness of what happened to the lost object.) " Yiush m'daas " meaning hope is declared lost with knowledge (or the intent of the owner to give up possession.)
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Yiush ("despair") is a concept in the Talmud regarding a Jew who loses an object ( aveidoh ) and another Jew finds it and the person who lost it is determined to have given up on the object. The general rule is that the original's owners "yiush" (giving up hope on finding the object) releases the object into the public domain, thereby allowing a finder of the object to keep it and releasing the finder from the obligation to return it to the original owner. There is: " Yiush shelo m'daas " meaning a person declares hope lost without knowledge (or awareness of what happened to the lost object.) " Yiush m'daas " meaning hope is declared lost with knowledge (or the intent of the owner to give up possession.)
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Yeiush ("despair") is a concept in the Talmud regarding a Jew who loses an object ( aveidah ) and another Jew finds it and the person who lost it is determined to have given up on the object. The general rule is that the original's owners "yeiush" (giving up hope on finding the object) releases the object into the public domain, thereby allowing a finder of the object to keep it and releasing the finder from the obligation to return it to the original owner. There is: " Yeiush shelo mida'at " meaning a person declares hope lost without knowledge (or awareness of what happened to the lost object.) " Yeiush mida'at " meaning hope is declared lost with knowledge (or the intent of the owner to give up possession.)
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Yeiush ("despair") is a concept in the Talmud regarding a Jew who loses an object ( aveidah ) and another Jew finds it and the person who lost it is determined to have given up on the object. The general rule is that the original's owners "yeiush" (giving up hope on finding the object) releases the object into the public domain, thereby allowing a finder of the object to keep it and releasing the finder from the obligation to return it to the original owner. There is: " Yeiush shelo mida'at " meaning a person declares hope lost without knowledge (or awareness of what happened to the lost object.) " Yeiush mida'at " meaning hope is declared lost with knowledge (or the intent of the owner to give up possession.)
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concept in the talmud regarding a jew who loses an object
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gone forever
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