Sublime

Lamb (& goat)

Just as the prohibition against unfair gain applies with regard to purchases and sales, so too, it applies with regard to hiring out [an article],41 contracting [for a task],42 and exchanging money.43

With regard to a person, this refers to a Canaanite servant who is elderly and the seller dyes his hair and his beard so that he will look younger.88 With regard to an animal, this refers to giving it bran water to drink so that its girth would be inflated and its hair would stand straight so that it appears bulkier. Similarly, it is forbidden to c

forbidden to deceive a gentile even with regard to a matter that will not cause him a loss, e.g., to sell him meat from an animal that