“If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey going astray bring it back to him.” (Shemos 23:4)
If a sheep or ox stray from the path every person is obligated to return it to its owner. From here we learn: If the Torah has so much mercy on the possessions of Yisrael how much more so we must have pity on the Jewish soul that strayed from the path. Even if he needs a lot of effort to bring him back. (Chofetz Chaim on the Torah)
My upstairs neighbors don’t have sheep.
They have a four-bedroom apartment. With a huge mirror in the entrance and a gorgeous set of couches. There are drapes on every window and window boxes full of geraniums on the porch. But no sheep at all. Nor an ox or donkeys. The only thing I have to return to them are the few clothespins that fall to my porch.
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