{"id":51567,"date":"2019-03-18T16:17:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T14:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=51567"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:33:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T08:33:53","slug":"false-weights-and-other-scams-little-and-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/false-weights-and-other-scams-little-and-big\/","title":{"rendered":"False Weights And Other Scams, Little And Big"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[847,391],"acf":{"old_id":"51567","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":51365,"related_cahpter":"178","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"How are we hurting others with our carelessness?","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Chapter 25 we encounter the commandment to keep equal and fair weights at measures. Not only are we promised long life and prosperity if we use fair measures, we are told that using false measures is a <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">toevat hashem<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an abomination to God. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is easy, when reading this prohibition to imagine that the person violating it is a monster: a deceitful scam artist taking advantage of his customers. However, the Mishnah in Bava Batra 5:10-11 reads it quite differently:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The wholesaler wipes his weights every thirty days, and the householder every twelve months. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: the other way around. A shopkeeper must wipe his weights twice a week, and clean the weights once a week, and wipe his scales after each weighing. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel said: in what case does this ruling apply? To liquid (measures), but for dry (measures), it\u2019s not necessary. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Mishnah understands that the person being addressed by this commandment is not a scam artist, but a careless, overworked shopkeeper, neglecting to wipe things down regularly enough. The abominable act of using false measures doesn\u2019t come through malice, but neglect. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I believe it is common in our lives to want to imagine that real, big sins are things done by other people, people who are not like us, people with ill-intent and twisted hearts. But in reality, a lot of the wrongs that happen in the world happen because someone ran out of time, or overlooked it, or thought it wouldn\u2019t matter. This Mishnah shows how small acts of carelessness accumulate into abominations, how it could happen to us, without us even intending it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rather than reading this law as speaking to the scam artists of the world, we should imagine it speaking to us: where in our lives do we let the little things pile up? How are we hurting others with our carelessness? 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