Returning on All Levels - Rabbi Doniel Staum

one of the great mitzvahs which khali israel has instructed is the mitzvah veda to return a lost object is not just a mitzvah something that we're commanded to do but there's also a low sase attached to you cannot turn away sometimes a person sees something and they don't want to see it so they just look away sometimes that's a good thing when it comes to a lost object of a fellow jew or that might be of a fellow jew a person cannot just look away it's one of the mitzvos that brings out the unity of quality the inherent family quality of kwame israel if you see a lost object of another jew you can't turn away here i have it in camp where every now and then walking on the road driving on the road and you see an article of clothing of this sort happens all the time it's not just a good deed to do the mitzvah it's something we're instructed to do we're commanded to do we cannot look away because just like if i see something that belongs to my brother or my parents or my child of course i wouldn't just drive away that's the way we have to feel towards every jew but there's another dimension that the shlock points out and that is that the mitzvah salvedo also applies to us to spirituality to bring with you closer to hashem is the mitzvah of because aaron shamus inherently are bound up we're connected to hashem and if we drift away whenever kasochol we drift away it's a lost object it's something that's missing from its source and so every time we're making others and perhaps even one makari of ourselves it's a mitzvah veda and it's something that all of us can comment on every single jew to do constantly to be mindful of the fact that the shamans have to and that's something we can always be mindful for ourselves and for others to constantly be doing the mitzvah of saveda physically and spiritually as well