A Yid from Yerushalayim relates: One day I noticed a sefer Tehillim in the street. I picked it up and saw there was a name and number written inside. I called the phone number and asked, “Did you lose a sefer Tehillim?”
On the other end of the line, a woman answered excitedly, “Yes.”
“Where do you live?”
“On Rechov Techeiles Mordechai.”
Techeiles Mordecahi is very far from where I live. I gave her my address, and we made up that whoever would come to the other one’s area first would take or return the sefer.
Just few moments later my phone rang. “You lost a wallet,” a confident voice told me.
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“I just found a wallet with your wife’s identifying details and credit card.”
I thanked the person and told him I would check it out. I called my wife and asked her to check whether she had her wallet. The honest finder had found the wallet even before she noticed it was missing.
I asked the man for his address, and I told him where I live. “In the afternoon I learn in a beis medrash very close to you,” he said, “and I’ll bring you the wallet!”
This was very moving. I felt that in the zechus of my mitzvah of hashavas aveidah, calling the person who lost the sefer Tehillim, my own lost item was returned to me without any ogmas nefesh.
