Halakhah for Bava Batra 176:11
וקללן בשמונה (ויקרא כו, טו) מואם בחקותי תמאסו עד ואת חקותי געלה נפשם
R. Levi further stated: Ordinary<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'private' or 'individual'. One of the meanings of yuhsj, 'a person in private station', 'layman.' Opposite to one of rank or profession. ');"><sup>29</sup></span> robbery is worse than the robbery of holy things,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., '(Most) High'. ');"><sup>30</sup></span> for [in] the former<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'this'. ');"><sup>31</sup></span>
Kitzur Shulchan Arukh
You should measure and weigh generously. [That is,] you should give more than the exact quantity as it is said:7Deuteronomy 25: 15. "You must have a full, just measure." What does the word "just" imply? Says the Torah: "Be just by giving him some of your own."8Bava Basra 88b. Rashi explains the apparent redundancy in the phrase “a full just measure” (a full measure is by definition, a just one) stating “although you give a full measure, make it tzedek, just and honest, by adding to it a little of your own; weigh generously, tilt the scale in the customer’s favor.”
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