## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 295

###### Sifrei Devarim 295:1
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**לְמַעַן יַאֲרִיכוּן יָמֶיךָ**, זוֹ אַחַת מִמִּצְוֹת שֶׁבַּתּוֹרָה שֶׁמַּתַּן שְׂכָרָהּ בְּצִדָּהּ. וַהֲלֹא דְּבָרִים קַל וָחֹמֶר: וּמַה גְּרוֹגֶרֶת שֶׁאֵינָהּ אֶלָּא אֶחָד מִמֵּאָה בְּאִסָּר, נָתְנָה תּוֹרָה אֲרִיכוּת יָמִים עָלֶיהָ, שְׁאָר מִצְוֹת שֶׁיֵּשׁ בָּהֶן חֶסְרוֹן כִּיס עַל אַחַת כַּמָּה וְכַמָּה.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**Pisqa’ 295**⁴⁹⁷
1. “So that you may extend your days” (Dt. 25:15).
This is one of those commandments of the Torah
for which the reward is specified along side it.
But isn’t this a matter of simple logic?
Just as [an honest weight for] a dried fig-cake,
weighing only one-hundredth of an ‘*issar*,⁴⁹⁸
is rewarded by the Torah with length of days,
all the more so, should length of days be
[the reward] for other commandments
involving financial sacrifice.

footnotes:
⁴⁹⁷ H:286;JN2:263-264.
⁴⁹⁸ A negligible sum.


###### Sifrei Devarim 295:2
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(דברים כה טז) **כִּי תוֹעֲבַת ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ כָּל עֹשֵׂה אֵלֶּה**, יָכוֹל לֹא יְהֵא חַיָּב עַד שֶׁיַּעֲבֹר עַל כֻּלָּם? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **כָּל עֹשֵׂה אֵלֶּה** אֲפִלּוּ אַחַת מֵהֶם.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
2. “For all who do *these things* are abominable to HASHEM” (Dt. 25:16)—
Is it possible to say that
one is not liable until he transgresses *all* of them?
The Teaching states:
“All who do *these* things” (Dt. 25:16)—
he is liable for transgressing even *one* of them.


###### Sifrei Devarim 295:3
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[**כֹּל עֹשֵׂה עָוֶל**], מִכָּן אָמְרוּ: אֵין מְעָרְבִין פֵּרוֹת בְּפֵרוֹת וַאֲפִלּוּ חֲדָשִׁים בִּישָׁנִים, וַאֲפִלּוּ סְאָה בְּדִינָר וּסְאָה יָפָה דִּינָר וּטְרִיסִית לֹא יְעָרְבֵם וְיִמְכְּרֵם סְאָה בְּדִינָר.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
“All who act *perversely*” (Dt. 25:16)—
On this basis they taught:
**One does not blend produce [of different batches]—**
**even fresh with old [of the same type].**
**Not even a *se’ah’s-*worth, at a *dinar,***
**should be blended with**
**a *se’ah’s-*worth [of finer produce] at a *dinar* and a *tressis*,**⁴⁹⁹ (= three *ases*)..
**[and the blend] is for sale [on discount] at a *dinar* per *se’ah.***⁵⁰⁰

footnotes:
⁴⁹⁹ A coin of little value. See Jastrow, s.v., tereisis
⁵⁰⁰ //T.BM.3:26; //M.BM.4:11. The point is that even if a normally deceptive merchandising practice yields a loss to the merchant, the practice is nevertheless proscribed, lest cynicism affect the market.


###### Sifrei Devarim 295:4
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**כֹּל עֹשֵׂה עָוֶל**, קָרוּי חֲמִשָּׁה שֵׁמוֹת: חֵרֶם, תּוֹעֵבָה, מְשֻׁקָּץ, שָׂנוּי, עַוָּל.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
3. **“All who act perversely” (Dt. 25:16)—**
**[such a person] is called by five names:**
**Condemned, Abominable, Hateful,**
**Disgusting and Perverted**.⁵⁰¹, per.4:1. Cf. *Pisqa’ot* 148.4, 226.3.

footnotes:
⁵⁰¹ // Sifra, qedoshim