A Boro Park yungerman made a tremendous kiddush hashem this week when he returned money inadvertently given to him by employees of Chase Bank.
YWN has learned through a third party that the story occurred on Monday, when a kollel yungerman withdrew $5,000 in cash at the Chase Bank branch at 13th Avenue and 48th Street in Boro Park.
Upon returning home, the man counted up the bills and quickly realized that he had been handed $6,000 – not the $5,000 he had withdrawn. He checked the receipt which confirmed that he had only taken out $5,000 from his account.
The next morning, the Jewish man returned to the bank and handed a teller $1,000 in cash, explaining that he had been given more money than he had withdrawn.
The bank employees were stunned. They told him that they had noticed the missing money, but were utterly flummoxed by it. They certainly were not expecting a customer to return that money to them.
The yungerman didn’t stay around to be praised. He left the bank and went back to learning in kollel, completely uninterested in the attention that would have surely come his way.
Mi K’Amcha Yisroel.
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Beautiful story. But nobody should take out $5000 in cash, it’s too dangerous to walk around with that amount of cash.
Goyim being stunned by someone doing what’s right, doesn’t make what was done stunning.
The most stunning thing that is gleamed from this event, is that goyim get stunned when someone does what’s right.
Most of the readers of this article would of returned the money I think, and that’s because we spend our days doing things that keep us in line with how hashem created mankind, yashar.
I would do the same.
And news flash. I held the door open for old pregnant lady!
A kiddush Ha-shem for certain, but not necessary al pi din d’Shulchan Aruch.
Who told YWN the story?
I would’ve kept the money. טעות עכו”ם is perfectly מותר
Plus JP Morgan Chase weren’t so nice to the yidden during the war
we are the light of the world unfortunately most don’t want to see it not our problem still we have to light it up bh
@arizona and @git meshige. Study the Shulchan Aruch carefully and you will see that the yungerman acted exactly in accordance with the Shulchan Aruch following in the footsteps of R. Shimon b. Shetach.
Git Meshiga
1. Dina D’Malchusa: it is illegal to keep the money.
2. Morally, stealing is defined as taking anything that does not belong to you.
3. Always treat others as you would yourself.
4. Even if it’s 100% permitted, it is not good, on a personal level, to be OK with stealing. It changes the way you think and who you are.
5. The bank has cameras, and when the security investigators find out who it was, it would be a massive, and inexcusable, Chillul Hashem.
6. As Rosh Hashonah approaches, it is imperative that we remember that Hashem provides all the money we need through legitimate and honest means.
This is not an excuse to steal.
Nisht alle mikveh reid is noigeah de velt zul vissen. Hameivin yuvin. Git meshige please.
It’s a beautiful story…no negativity! These are the stories we need more of in the news
Just to point out:
Tai’us Aku”m is muter. The Be’er Hagoilah does say on this: “aval einoi roieh siman berachah.”
The reason is because you are still hurting a human being. Even Bill Gates would not like someone taking him for $5.
However, in this case, no one was hurt.
This yungerman really did not return anything to “anybody.”
Nothing would be missing from anyones bank account.
The bank’s publicly traded stock would not go down 1 penny from a $1,000 loss. So no shareholders (the bank’s owners) would not lose one penny.
It happens to sound like $1,000 did not mean anything to this fellow.
No comparison to the beautiful famous stories of the cash found in a bought used desk, or the $40k found in the wall of a bought Flatbush house about 50 years ago, that Yidden returned.