“If you meet your enemy’s donkey going astray, you shall repeatedly bring it back to him.”(Shemot 23:4)
The Chofetz Chayim commented on this: the Torah is concerned about the money of other people. If someone’s animal got lost, we are obligated to go out of our way to return the animal to his owner, even if his not our friend and he is our enemy, or even a stranger. This verse not only applies to animals but also to any lost possession. If you can trace the owner, it is a huge Mitzvah and obligation to return a lost object.
All the more we should have compassion for another human being who is spiritually lost. Even if it will take much effort to bring him back we should never give up.
The lost person is a precious possession that H”S has lost and by us helping that person reconnect to His creator we are fulfilling the Mitzvah of returning a lost human to H”S.
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