Lost and Found

The Lost Sheep

Now, these two questions that the malach asked; you think the malach was talking only to Hagar? Oh no. Hakadosh Baruch Hu wrote that in the Torah because those questions are intended for all of us. Who’s not wandering on the road? Who’s not leaving from one place, going to another place? We’re all wandering like lost sheep in the desert.

You know who said that? You’ll be surprised. It was Dovid Hamelech. Dovid our great king, the man who was closer to Hashem than we could even imagine, said עִיתִי כְּשֶׂה אֹבֵד – “I wandered like a lost ...”