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Torah & Horaah — Vayakhel/Pekudei 5783

Выпуск: Torah & Horaah — Vayakhel/Pekudei 5783. Темы: family_education. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה. And under the auspices of Beis Horaah in memory of Baruch and Bracha Gross Vayakeheil-Pekudai 5783 229 c Question in Choshen Mishpot d By Rabbi Yosef Fleischman Question I learned in the Gemara (BB 88B) that when someone sells by weight he must give the customer more than the exact weight that he is charging for, and in fact the Gemara derives this rule from a pasuk. It seems that this law is violated today when one buys packaged goods where the price is marked for the exact weight of the package or when the store weighs out the quantity being sold on an electronic scale and the price one pays is for the exact amount that the scale shows. On one tray one placed the item he to add to the tray containing the item that wished to weigh and on the second the is being sold an amount that will cause it seller placed objects of known weight to be not at equilibrium but rather a tefach (called weights). 1 Questions in all areas of halacha can be submitted to the rabbanim of our Beis Horaah at www.dinonline.org The Gemara says that a community may forbidden to steal from or to sell to a gentile adopt an alternative custom in order to using dishonest weights and measures. In order to arrive at a leniency he first proves Since this command is not part of the that the Torah’s rationale was that Hashem prohibition against theft, the Minchas wished to ensure that the customer will Chinuch (mitzva 259) and Maharam Shick not be shortchanged. 2 Questions in all areas of halacha can be submitted to the rabbanim of our Beis Horaah at www.dinonline.org Even though the same pasuk that is the he says, since it is a general necessity, source that one must add when selling by there is a tacit agreement of all to allow weight also discusses measurements that each other to violate the ruling of the include measurements of land, yet, when Gemara. does not justify the Maharam Shick’s ruling Therefore, he says that one must set the The second situation where the scale at a setting that the customer will Yerushalmi’s rule of custom changing never be charged more than the amount he law applies is if the custom is sanctioned. others) is that only if the Rabbis agree to The Chashukei Chemed remains with a waive the law or, if there is a vot

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Torah & Horaah

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17 марта 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education