Downtown Lunch and Learn

Downtown Lunch and Learn

Finders Keepers: A Jewish Take on the Lost Object
Rabbi Jonathan Hecht

You find a $20 bill on a lunch table downtown. Can you keep it? You are walking down the beach and a pocketbook washes up on shore. What does Jewish law say? Learn about the rabbinic conception of the “Lost Object.” During this session, we will examine one of the clearest, most interesting sections of the Talmud. Put on your legal and ethical thinking caps. We will be reading from the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Bava Metzia, Chapter 2.