"One should not put the nicer and fresher beans at the top of the bushel, because he is being deceptive by making the customer think that the entire bushel is full of those nice beans."
-Talmud, Bava Metzia 60a-b
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Please comment on a time when you experienced this theft, perhaps you were the thief or the victim. If you have been meritorious enough not to be involved, share your thoughts on this tragic activity.
I am going to relate this to how sometimes people are. Like there was this girl last year that everone wanted to be friends with. She was really prety and the whole shabang. But her personality was the worst! She was rude, snobby, all that jazz.
Just because she looked nice and pretty outside does not mean she was to pretty on the inside or peronality wise.
Am i getting the jist of it?
-Emma Segal
As to the whole good beans at the top of the barrel thing, how could a jew run a profitable buisiness if he sells everything for exactly what its worth. He'll make no money if he doesn't charge a little extra on each product. So how then, do we not steal someone's mind well running a realistic business? To what extent does this law mean.
This happens to me all the time. Whenever I buy a bag of potato chips, half of the bag is air. They fill a majority of it with air is because it looks like the whole bag is filled.
-allie
OK, so here's my story. When my dad was younger, he lived in Haifa, Israel. Near his house, there was a deli. So he went to the deli one day and bought a pita with salami. It looked like there was soooo much salami because it was going over the top of the pita, but when my dad opened it up, he found out that they just cut slices of salami in half and put them at the top to make it look like there's a lot of it. Whoever decided to do that must have been a pretty smart Jew but pretty stupid at the same time. That's why hes been out of business for a really long time now =).
-You don't know who i am, how cool is that. Muahahaha
Sharom Sakkofs,
So here is my story. When I was young my mother bought a painting from Mexico. The Salesman said that the painting was very rare and was made by a famous artist. When we come home, all of my mom's friends have that very same painting. The Salesman was a pretty smart Mexican.
-Aaron
Okay so this basically happens to me all the time. Sometimes when we work in groups on assignments some people get higher grades than their partners. If I put in more effort than my partner and they receive a higher grade that me, I feel like i have been "robbed" of my "intelligence".
-Chloe :)
On my mom and dads honeymoon in Mexico, they were loking for a souvenir from Mexico. So when they were walking down the open market they saw a man polishing some wooden animals, so they asked if he made it himself by hand.The man said o yes, it took me about a week to make....... My parents bought the small dolphin one. When they got back to the hotel, my mom saw a "Maid in China" sticker on bottom of the dolphin. That old mexican guy "stole there mind"!
Maybe back in biblical times this was a more serious crime, but now days i really think it is just doing good business.
Like a bag of potato chips always look like they have more, or how like a burger at a fast food joint is never as good looking as the picture.
ok so this quote reminds me of when you buy something and they say it is an amazing deal and your so exitided to try it out but when you get home its a piece of crap wich gets really anoying
-olivia:)
On stuarts comment-
I tink that not only a jew would do that
On mr. sakofs blog thing-
MY story is that one time when i was in israel. I went to buy falafel becuase i like falafel from an arabian falafel seller (mostly cuz the arabian falafel sellers make the best falafel) and apparently i didnt notice but he put the hummus and toppings in before the falafel. And he only put falafel on the top of the falafel. So in a way he cheated me out of my arabian falafel and i still ahd to pay the full 35 shekels and i was very sad.
-Yossi Alexandros Mattetieu Lowie =idfcommando94
SOOOOO I think this story is basically true. But not with beans because I rarely eat beans and I wouldn't pay $200 for a few good beans. But at my birthday dinner, I got this cool box of fries and the box was shaped like one of those classic popcorn boxes. ANYWAYS, I finished the like, 20th fry and I reached in the box to get more, and there was a scrunched up piece of wax paper in the bottom! I WAS SO MAD!! I was counting on more fries!! Ugh. This is so typical to happen to me. ANYWAYS, this reminds me of people. There are the people who are bad on the outside and in. People who may come off good and nice, but are actually mean and bad and terrible on the inside or vice versa. And there are the really good people who do things for good reasons and have hearts full of love care. That's about it.
~MOOGAN!!!!!
so one time i went to a store and bought this belt buckle and the salesman was telling me that it was made of this special material so like anybody i was interseted. and when i got home it said made and china nd the material was chipping
Well, to be perfectly honest, this is an extremely common mishap which decieves thousands of people every day. Relating back to what Allie said about the potato chip bag, this esentially means that apperances can, and most likely are, in fact, decieving.
-Ben Marx
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