This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...heaping, and vice versa? From Deut. xxv. i5: "A perfect and just measure shalt thou have." And whence is it deduced that if one say, where the custom is not to smooth, "I will smooth and diminish the amount," or, in places where it is smoothed, " I will heap and increase the amount," he must not be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...heaping, and vice versa? From Deut. xxv. i5: "A perfect and just measure shalt thou have." And whence is it deduced that if one say, where the custom is not to smooth, "I will smooth and diminish the amount," or, in places where it is smoothed, " I will heap and increase the amount," he must not be listened to? From the same cited verse and from the superfluous word "just," as stated above. The rabbis taught: Whence is it deduced that one must not weigh accurately where it is customary to add to the weight, and viceversa? From the same cited verse: "perfect and just The Hagadah in text will be placed at the end of this chapter. weight." And if one cared to do otherwise than according to custom, and pay the difference? He must not be listened to, as said above. Said R. Jehudah of Sura: It is written ibid., ibid. i4: "Thou shalt not have in thy house," etc. (the term " in thy house," which is superfluous, is to be interpreted thus: thou shalt not have money in thy house, for the purpose of smoothing where it is the custom of heaping, and vice versa, or for overweight, etc.), because this would bring one to keep in his house two divers measures. And the same explanation is to be given to ibid., ibid. i3: "As it is desired of every one to have one weight and one measure, just and perfect." The rabbis taught: From the same verse is to be inferred that gradums must be appointed to investigate measures, but not to investigate prices. The Exilarchs used to appoint gradums for both (measures and prices). And Samuel said to Kama: Go and lecture to them that gradums should be appointed for measures only. He, however, lectured that for both (measures and prices) gradums...
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