It is a mitzvah to return a lost item to it’s rightful owner. It is my obligation to do all that I can do in order to achieve that goal. He quotes Deuteronomy about returning a neighbor’s stray sheep or ox. “The Torah’s words ‘you must take it back to your fellow’ remind us that keeping an item we have found is not LIKE stealing; it IS stealing.”
Again, this is pretty concrete. I’m looking for some metaphor. How do you return another’s innocence or hope? How do you return someone’s lost passion? Can my actions be seen as the returning of those items - if I live my life in such a way that I don’t take advantage of someone else’s innocence, or hope? If I don’t act as if the thing about which someone once was passionate is not worth being passionate about once again?
Return lost objects. How do you return someone’s belief in themselves or their love?
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