Shevet Dan’s task promotes connection between man and his fellow
The Gemara Yerushalmi explains that Shevet Dan preformed the mitzvah of hashavas aveidah, collecting and returning lost objects as they brought up the rear. Why specifically this shevet?
My kids are professional aveidah finders. Since they want to share this mitzvah with their mother, they focus on finding the lost objects, leaving me to return them to their owners.
It’s amazing how many sundry items I have floating around my house, waiting to be returned to their rightful owners.
There was the deflated soccer ball that my son found after recess. “No, it didn’t belong to anyone in school, so I had to bring it home,” he explained.
Then there was the small pair of silver girl’s sandals that appeared neatly side by side on our lawn, which must have been left there by Serach bas Asher when she was a child, because our youngest girl was then 19.
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