Theft, Stealing

The Baal Shem Tov helps a would-be thief repent.

The kabbala on the significance of theft and restoration

"Thou shall not steal." Some of the precepts that are included in this prohibition.

Finally, Reb Yehoshua set a price of 25 Napoleons--a sum that would support a family for two years. Surely, no one would be so foolhardy as to pay that kind of money for a horse...!

There once lived a certain pious, young scholar, G-d-fearing and pure of heart, who invested all his time and energy in Torah learning...

Rabbi Chaim of Sanz once went looking for an honest man in the marketplace

"Everything here seems so Jewish, even the non-Jews have something Jewish about them here. Tell me, Senya, what's Jewish about you?" I ask innocently.

The Theft When my family returned from a two-day trip, we found our home burglarized. The thief broke a window to gain access, rifled through drawers, left a mess, and walked away with a few meager items and a charity box. The things he took were just ...

In the Talmud, Sanhedrin 24b. the rabbis take a dim view about gambling. Besides being a risky enterprise financially, and addictive, the rabbis say that the winner is really a loser. Morally speaking that is. How so? Because the fellow with the inferior ...

Rabbi Mottel Friedman found an empty ark last week when he went to turn off a light that had suspiciously been left on.