Lost and Found | TORAH FOR KIDS AI

In the Jewish world, when you find something that's lost, you have to you can't just pocket it like an animal. You have to find out if it belongs to somebody. If it belongs to a Jew, you must return it unless it's going to cost you more to return it than it's worth. So, for example, if you find a dollar in a wallet and there's let's say to there's a uh ID of the person in there, you know that this belongs to Amos who lives in Australia. You're in Israel, but you have $1 in the uh in the p in the wallet. You don't have to return it. Why? Cuz it's going to cost you more to go travel to Australia. So, it cost you $2,000 just for [music] the plane ticket. Go return a dollar. That's not you're not obligated to do that. But if, let's say, he lives down the street, you have a couple hundred bucks in the wallet, you have a 100 bucks, 50 bucks, whatever it [music] is, and it's you have to return it. But long story short, there's a there's a calculation what you have to return, what you don't have to return, who to return, who not to return. If it's for if it belongs to a you technically don't have to return it. But if you do, you could fulfill the biggest of which is kushem. So some people are saying listen I I found 500 bucks I have confirmation it belongs to a god I'm pocketing it it's nest from shine it's a miracle from sham which it could be but the reward you're going to get when you return the 500 bucks to the in shm when you sanctify name and the guy knows oh I return I you know you return it to me why why'd you return 500 bucks I [music] return it to you because that's what our Torah says Hashem told us to return it you just fulfilled called kushashem. You are super sadik. There's one sadik I believe in New Jersey bought a desk, a used desk from some woman, a non-Jew. And when he got the desk, he to put it into the house, he had to take it apart. And when he took it apart, he saw that inside the desk there was a bag. [music] So he took the bag and he opened the bag and he saw that there's almost $90,000 in cash in the [music] bag inside the desk. $90,000. This is a typical just a rabbi. He's not like some rich guy has millions in the bank or anything. Guy's young guy, relatively newly married. Now he had a choice. Now based on he can keep the money and join. Why? He bought it from a guy who pretty much has is lost it. She considered it lost. She didn't uh even think about whether it was in there or not. It's allowed to keep it. But based on being a sadik, based on loving Hashem, he decided the right choice. What did he say? Said, "I'm going to go return it to her." And late at night he called by the time he got home from where this woman was living was late at night but he called her. The woman nearly had a heart attack. She said, "Oh, I forgot about it. I lost this. This is part of my inheritance that I got. But I lost it many years ago. I lost it. I forgot where I put it." She forgot where she put almost $100,000 in cash. Forgot. She forgot. People are forgetful. Sometimes we forget stuff that's very valuable. We think it is why did you forget it? So this Jew would have the test of what's more important to him a few bucks. So this Jew went to this woman's house and he gave her the money. She gave him some type of compensation. She decided on her own. I don't know how much it was, but it doesn't make a difference. The compensation he got from Shamim is endless. The story, the woman was so enthused about it, she decided to publicize it. She called the news for him. She called the news. He went on talk shows. People were just amazed. How do you I mean, this guy multi-millionaire, maybe this guy maybe has a foundation with hundred zillion dollars. He has nothing to do with, but he just bought a desk for a couple hundred bucks. How much money could he possibly have? Became a very big Hebrew Hashem. So you have an opportunity to do if you find something to return it to the and say thank you for 1 2 3