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Rabbi Finds $98K in Desk Bought From Craigslist, Returns Money Saying 'God Will Give Us Money If He Wants To'

He Even Took His 4 Children Along to Return the Money to Teach Them About Honesty

A rabbi and his wife who found close to $100,000 in a desk they purchased via Craigslist have decided to return the money to the rightful owner, saying that if "God wants us to have $98,000, he'll make sure to give it to us in some other way." 

Rabbi Noah Muroff, a ninth grade teacher at a Yeshiva school in New Haven, Conn., found the money earlier this week when he and his wife took apart a used desk they had recently purchased for $150 from a local woman in Craigslist. The couple had to take apart the desk to fit it through their office door in their home, and upon dismantling the piece of furniture, they found $98,000 wrapped in a plastic bag and stored between the desk and its interior filing cabinets.

"The desk did not fit […] by just a fraction of an inch," Muroff told CNN, adding that he realized after he had unhooked the file cabinet doors that "without detaching the desk, this money, which was behind the drawers, was totally inaccessible."

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After finding the money, Muroff added to CNN that he and his wife "were looking at each other and laughing," adding "this kind of thing only happens in the movies."

Muroff told "Good Morning America" that after he and his wife counted the bills, they called the woman they had purchased the desk from to return the money, deciding that the large amount of cash was not rightfully theirs. "We both agreed that this is not our money," the teacher said. "If God wants us to have $98,000, he'll make sure to give it to us in some other way."

The rabbi and his wife then returned the money to the rightful owner the next day, and Muroff said he brought his four children along with him to teach them a lesson on honesty. Muroff later learned from the woman, who remains unidentified, that the money recovered in the desk was actually an inheritance that she had received and had forgotten where she had hidden it.

When the rabbi and his family arrived to return the money, the woman gave them a gift bag that included the original $150 they paid for the desk and a note that read: "I do not think there are too many people in this world that would have done what you did by calling me. I do like to believe that there are still good people left in this crazy world we live in. You certainly are one of them. I cannot thank you enough for your honesty and integrity."

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