Sublime

Rabbeinu Tam states that salt extracts liquid absorbed by the weights and thus makes them lighter. Thus when the seller uses them for a sale, he will give the customer less. Since it is the seller’s weights that are regularly used during transactions, storing his weights in salt could lead to the customers receiving less than the amount agreed upon

A merchant is permitted to take some superior produce and other inferior produce from several sources and place them in one granary from which he sells, even if the inferior produce is not obvious because there is so little of it or because its appearance resembles that of the higher quality produce. [The rationale is that] since everyone knows tha

Torah, Hilchos Rotzeiach 12:14. Similarly, in this instance, by lending money without a record, the lender is inviting, so to speak, the borrower to deny the debt, as it were.

The first printed edition of the Talmud—Daniel Bomberg’s in Italy between 1520 and 1523—established the general formatting used to this day. A section of Mishnah is followed by the Gemara that discusses it. The commentary of the great French commentator Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki) is printed on the inner margin near the binding. The commentary of

in weight.

[The above leniency is granted,] provided he does not intentionally purchase the majority from a superior source so that he will develop a reputation that he purchases everything from a superior source, while also purchasing some from an inferior source and mixing them together in a manner that [the inferior ones] will not be noticed.100

through which he is best known to tradition: Moshe Rabbenu, the leader as teacher. Leadership is not a gift with which we are endowed at birth. It is something we acquire in the course of time, often after many setbacks, failures, and disappointments.

According to Shiurei Torah, p. 118, a litra is a pound in contemporary measure.

Rashi, and those he cites as he weaves his interpretation, transforms greed into spiritual ambition, a desire to know and to grow, which should never be sated. Abundance is only truly meaningful in the realm of ideas.