Laws of Ona'ah - Monetary Deception | Weekly Shiur by Rav Asher Weiss Shlit"a | Behar Bechukotai

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[Music] so this week we read two paragraphs which include many mitzvahs one of them is chavisa so oretz but in the very near future i will start giving a series of shiuriman schmitta so that's not what we will be discussing today in the beginning of the passion pasha's bahar we learn the mitzvah of okonomiyaki do not cheat be honest in your monetary dealings so the seller is prohibited to demand an unreasonable price which is higher than market value the buyer has the same mitzvah if the seller is unaware of how much the merchandise is worth the buyer must make him aware and he cannot pay less than market value so this is incumbent on both the seller and the buyer lois es amiso so there are many details in this complex sugiya involvement of the base if it's less than a sixth then no money goes back what you paid you paid and that's it if it's exactly a sixth corner the transaction is valid doesn't go back but whatever you took and it was illegitimate whatever you took more than market value you need to give that money back is more than a sixth let's say it's seven or eight or nine or ten percent mega bottle the entree transaction is invalidated is invalid and so on what basis did ghazal determine these halos on one hand but it's so unreasonable to assume that it's exactly a sixth and it makes no difference whether the entire amount the person paid is 100 shekel or 10 million dollars it is always about six percent and why is it exactly six percent which conor mcs and seven percent the entire transaction is invalid why is that what is the logic behind this and why is there a difference between a sixth and

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