Halakhah for Bava Batra 176:7
גבי עריות נמי הכתיב אלה ההוא למעוטי מדות מכרת
for in the latter case<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit. 'this'. ');"><sup>18</sup></span> it has been said: El,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XVIII, 27. V. following note. ');"><sup>19</sup></span> but in the former<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit. 'this'. ');"><sup>18</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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