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<DIV>Sorry; I accidently sent this to Areivim instead of Avodah.</DIV>
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<DIV>Joseph</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=jkaplan@tenzerlunin.com href="mailto:jkaplan@tenzerlunin.com">Joseph C.
Kaplan</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=eliturkel@gmail.com
href="mailto:eliturkel@gmail.com">Eli Turkel</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=areivim@lists.aishdas.org
href="mailto:areivim@lists.aishdas.org">Areivim</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 07, 2009 1:56 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Returning Merchandise</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>RET asks:</DIV>
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<DIV>"I bought a camera from a major distributor in the US. The camera didn't
arrive.<BR>When I complained they sent a replacement. Several months later
the<BR>original camera was delivered by the US post office (yeah USPostal
service).<BR>Is there a chiyuv to return the second (actually the original)
camera."</DIV>
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<DIV>I don't know the answer but let me tell a true story. The principal
of a MO high school was interviewing rebbeim. One of the questions in the
interview was what would the rebbe do if a student asked the following
question: I went to a store and the salesgirl, who was not Jewish (and the
store is owned by non-Jews as well) gave me significantly too much change.
What should I do?</DIV>
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<DIV>A number of the rebbeim being interviewed took this as an opportunity to
show their Torah knowledge and discussed with great erudition gezel akum.
The one who got the job, however answered: send the money back to the
store owner with a cover letter explaining what happened and say that you are a
high school student in a Jewish school and you were taught that returning the
overpayment is the right and moral thing to do.</DIV>
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<DIV>Joseph Kaplan<BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>