Monday, February 17, 2020

got ripped off

Daf Yomi Brachos 44b

חד גדיא דזבין אבא בתרי זוזי

TWO ZUZIM FOR A GOAT,
IS IT A FAIR PRICE OR​ OVERPRICED?


My nephew Harav Hagaon R. Yitzchok Meir Goldstein Shlita
(מחבר ספרי שפתי יצחק ועוד) writes in his Haggadah,  that the
Gemoro says, א"ר חסדא אפילו גדיא בר זוזא
Rashi explains שמן וטוב ששוה זוז   
  
From this Rashi, we see that a good & fat  goat is worth only one Zuz
The buyer paid double the amount for his goat, way overpriced.
Probably before Pesach, there was price gouging.

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