In September 2013, Rabbi Noah Muroff brought home an ordinary office desk he had bought on Craigslist. Finding the desk an inch too wide to fit through his office doorway, the high school teacher from New Haven, Connecticut, got out his screwdriver, removed the desktop, and discovered a plastic bag stuffed in the space behind the drawers. The bag contained $98,000 in cash.
He knew that the money must belong to the previous owner, an elderly lady who told him she had bought the desk from Staples and put it together herself.
Was he obligated to return the money?
Grapple with the Gray
List two or three reasons for keeping the money.
List two or three reasons for returning it to the previous owner.
Is there another option?
Having ...
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