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This is problematic: How can a maneh consist of 60 shekels? Since each biblical shekel is equivalent to 4 dinars, if a maneh is equal to 60 shekels, a maneh is 240 dinars. But a maneh is actually equal to 25 shekels, which is 100 dinars. Rather, one can learn from the verse 3 matters: Learn from it
The Talmud relates: Rav Pappa bar Shmuel instituted a new measure of 3 kefiza, which is equal to 3 log. The rabbis said to him: But doesn’t Shmuel say that one may not increase the measures by more than 1/6th? You have added 1/3rd, as there already exists a measure of a half-kav, which is the equi
§ The Talmud provides a mnemonic for the ensuing discussions: Hoarders of produce; one may not hoard; and one may not export; and one may not earn a profit; twice from the sale of eggs; they sound the alarm; and one may not leave.
A baraita states: Hoarders of produce, who drive up prices by causing a shortage of available goods, and usurers, and those sellers who falsely reduce their measures, and those who raise market prices by selling for more than the accepted price, about them the verse states: “You that would swallow
The Talmud asks: Hoarders of produce, such as whom? R' Yoḥanan said: Such as Shabbtai, the hoarder of produce, who would buy and hoard large amounts of produce and later sell it at a high price.