Money Found In Crawlspace Delivered After 30 Years

[Music] recently a friend of mine moved into an old duplex building here in la and he found that the front doorbell wasn't working in order to fix it he had to go around the house crawl through the crawl space find the wiring and change it as he was crawling under the house tapping around with his flashlight he suddenly notices envelopes papers postcards keys coins and he's wondering with himself what's that doing there how did it get there it turns out that the mail compartment where the mailman would drop the mail into had a crack in it and every now and then some mail would fall through the crack into the crawl space and for the past hundred years since the building was built these envelopes piled up and collected dust he took them outside sat on his front step and went through each piece he was surprised to find there was a postcard dated 1938 from someone in italy congratulating the tenant for moving into their new domicile who uses that word today if it was a receipt to someone who lived in the apartment at the time who donated a letter to a safer torah old keys coins and as he's going through each piece there's an old lady walking by she walks over introduces herself and she says you know i lived there 25 years ago in the apartment upstairs and some of my mail still comes to my old address i'm wondering is there any mail for me they start going through the mail and suddenly she sees an envelope with her name on it and she says oh my goodness this is for me she takes the envelope she opens it up and she sees there's a letter with four crisp 100 bills in it it was dated to 1995. close to 30 years ago and the letter reads i know it's before the holidays right now and your financial situation is tough i thought maybe you can use this extra money her eyes teared up she got so emotional she looked at my friend and she said wouldn't you believe it the holidays are coming up again i can really use this extra money right now and as she walked away my friend couldn't believe it he thought to himself what are the chances of him crawling through the crawl space finding her money as she's walking by so that he can give it to her you know when it comes to khasad the torah says three very powerful words what belongs to the ani to the needy is by you which means when we find that we have extra money in our accounts in our mailbox or sometimes yeah even under our mailbox that money doesn't belong to us it belongs to the ani to the needy the only reason why hashem put it in our possession is so that when the oni walks by we can have the opportunity the mitzvah of giving it to him the next time that opportunity comes knocking at your door check in dig deep because chances are [Music] belongs to the needy is with you [Music] you