Sruly Taub, a realtor in Lakewood, NJ, showed clients a home approximately 6 months ago and they negotiated a price with the seller that was signed by both parties. Subsequently, a higher bid came in and the clients had to increase their offer by $25,000 to retain the house.
Fast forward half a year.
This week, Taub got a call from the buyer that she found something very expensive in the house and wanted to make contact with the sellers. What did she find? She found a diamond tennis bracelet hidden away somewhere in the house.
“Not only did they not keep it, although they could have al pi halacha,” said the realtor, “but they put it into a gift bag and dropped it off by the seller’s daughter in Toms River. The son-in-law couldn’t get over it and said, ‘I didn’t know that they still make people like you.’”
Mi ke’amcha Yisroel!
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“Subsequently, a higher bid came in and the clients had to increase their offer by $25,000 to retain the house.”
Is that al pi halacha?
Sounds like the sellers were gentiles.
Great Kiddush Hashem!!
Kiddush Hashem is only by Yidden, not goyim.
The bigger question here is, if you have a signed agreement on a price why is the seller able to weasel out of it for an extra $25,000 in his pocket from somebody else?
And I don’t want to hear, but that’s the way we do it. That doesn’t make it right!
I feel good when I hear a story like this. There are still good people in the world. Hashem should bless them with Brocho, V’Hatzlocho, Parnoso Toiva, & Refuah Sheleimo for this hugh Kiddish Hashem.
Beautiful story, blessings on the heads of those responsible for it.
ירבו כמותם בישראל
Maybe the seller should learn a lesson for the future and keep to prices that they sign with a customer
Was the seller a Yid or a got? Makes a big difference.
why is everyone so surpised? dont you remember when a frum man bought a desk and found an envelop with a great deal of money in it which someone had placed there to hide and then forgot where he had put the money? of course he returned the money; it was not his. does that surprise anyone?
the antisemitism we are observing now is jealousy, pure and simple. when a store has to put chicken wire on its steaks to prevent people from shop lifting, that is what should be of concern to us. there’s no difference between shoplifting steaks, jewelry or toilet paper. the world has lost its moral way, whether we call ourselves men, women, or giraffes, and no one seems bothered by that. so we remain surprised by people who return things that dont belong to them and okay with a supreme justice candidate who cant define ‘woman’
“it was not his” that is not true according to halacha….
H’ granted him this money and it was his CHOICE to give away what was now rightfully HIS money, on the chance that it would make a kiddush H’.
Although I’m not sure that that was the correct decision since H’ sent that money to him, I am still quite impressed.
Mi keamcha Yisrael?!!!
Until out of attorney review either side can back out without penalty that’s the law in New Jersey
…but is that the halacha?
I am SO disappointed. I cherish reading tragedies, which I find to be so relaxing, and so plentiful in coverage here. This is a feel-good positive inspiring, teaching-moment story. What am I gonna do with that!?
Don’t worry. Matzav has plenty of communicated content.
The seller cost the buyer an extra 25K, and the buyer, instead of recouping his losses, looks to give back the bracelet. Olam Hafuch raisisi. Maybe the bracelet was ugly as sin or was just costume jewelry.