Reply To: Saving shul seats, sidurrim for others not yet here

Gaon – correct, my plate is not a real chotzer, but similar. My plate has a din of keli shel lo’kayach b’rishus mocher, which is like a tzedaka pushka that acquires the tzedaka put into it. My plate is like the pushka and the kugel placed into it is like the tzedaka money put into the pushka.