Musar 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>
Mesilat Yesharim
Our Sages of blessed memory also said: "stealing from another person is worse than stealing from Temple property, for in the former, the word 'sin' precedes the word 'betrayal' [and the opposite in the latter]..."
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Mesilat Yesharim
I will not speak with respect to deception in the area of measurements for scripture explicitly states: "the abomination of the L-rd your G-d are all who do these" (Devarim 25:16). They further stated: "the punishment for dishonest weights and measures is worse than the punishment for illicit relations" (Bava Basra 88b) and "a wholesale dealer must wipe his measures clean once in thirty days..." (ibid 88a). Why all this? So that they do not unknowingly diminish in measure and he is not punished [for stealing from his customers due to negligence].
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