Ki Seitzei 25:14 · unit 1

TT #773 · Parashas Ki Seitzei · Seventh Aliyah · Passuk 25:14

The Complete Passuk

לֹא־יִהְיֶ֥ה לְךָ֛ בְּבֵיתְךָ֖ אֵיפָ֣ה וְאֵיפָ֑ה גְּדוֹלָ֖ה וּקְטַנָּֽה׃

You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.

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Source Citation

Torah Temimah points to Bava Batra 89a.

TT lemma: לֹא יִהְיֶה לְךָ.

Sefaria

Core Text of Chazal

תָּנוּ רַבָּנַן: לֹא יִהְיֶה לְךָ – מְלַמֵּד שֶׁמַּעֲמִידִין אַגַּרְדְּמִין לַמִּדּוֹת וְאֵין מַעֲמִידִין אַגַּרְדְּמִין לַשְּׁעָרִים.

English: Our Rabbis taught: “You shall not have” — this teaches that supervisors are appointed over measures, but supervisors are not appointed over market prices.

On the daf / in context: The community is obligated to oversee the honesty of weights and measures, but not to fix prices in the same way.

Type of Learning

Derash on the communal obligation to supervise measures.

What Is Learned

The court must appoint inspectors for weights and measures; it need not appoint inspectors for market prices.