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Shortchanging a customer in weight or measure, even mere possession of defective weights or measures, is a punishable offense -- and a moral failing.

European influence in the Middle East.

The renewed interest in Jewish mysticism can partially be attributed to a renewed interest in non-traditional spirituality.

In the last three decades, Jewish mysticism has gone from an underground discipline to a mass phenomenon.

Advertising deals in dissatisfaction, argues one environmental activist. We buy to cure deficiencies that ads mercilessly invent, encouraging us to covet what others have.

The Torah forbids fraud in pricing and in weights and measures. Prophets and sages rail against those who violate these laws.

The Torah admonishes us to "love God" with our material possessions -- that is, not to keep our religious values and economic lives in separate compartments

Balancing between the importance of Jewish behavior and the meaning that Jews find in those behaviors creates a productive tension that defines Jewish life.

Art as text.

What is unfair competition in business? There are many Jewish answers.

Jewish law has plenty to say about conducting business: accurate weights and measures, overcharging, verbal deception, false packaging and much more.

God instructs Moses and Aaron regarding the red heifer; Miriam dies; Moses hits a rock to bring forth water rather than speaking to it; Aaron dies.