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What rights does a person have to determine the ownership of an object after he has given it away?
Our Gemara tells the story of “grandma.” That is, someone announced that he was giving all of his money to his grandmother, stating that he did so with the proviso that after she died the money would go to his descendants rather than to the people who would inherit her.
We explore the definition of Savta (and Sabba!) as well as the archetype of “senex" in the writings of Jung and Hillman