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Daily Mitzvah (Rambam)

Day 266: Negative Commandment 250

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Important Message Regarding This Lesson

The Daily Mitzvah schedule runs parallel to the daily study of 3 chapters of Maimonides' 14-volume code. There are instances when the Mitzvah is repeated a few days consecutively while the exploration of the same Mitzvah continues in the in-depth track.

Negative Commandment 250 (Digest)
Honesty in Commerce

"When you make a sale to your fellow or make a purchase from the hand of your fellow, you shall not defraud one another"Leviticus 25:14.

It is forbidden for a seller or buyer to cheat one another in the course of commerce [by deceptively overcharging or underpaying for merchandise].

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When you come into the land which G-d is giving you... You shall take of the first of the fruit of the earth... and put into a basket. And you shall go to the place which G-d will choose to have His Name dwell there...
  –Deuteronomy 26:1-2
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