Q. Dear Rabbi. In our shul we found a bag full of small coins and some bills, all mixed together with paper plates and notices from different institutions. The plates, were likely placed before the reading of the Megila on Purim or similar occasions, but were never collected. Since the monies are all mixed, what are we supposed to do with them?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that a notice should be placed in shul advertising that there are plates for collection for institutions that have not been collected and were left behind and the involved parties should come and collect a part of the monies left.

If, no one or just a few institutions come to claim, whatever money is left should be donated to necessitated Talmidei Chachamin and Torah learners.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.