{"id":3347,"date":"2016-11-25T04:17:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2016-12-04T04:18:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T04:18:09","slug":"%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9d-%d7%95-date-24-cheshvan-5776-112516-bava-metzia-daf-60-eliezer-guterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=3347","title":{"rendered":"\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d5  Date: 24 Cheshvan, 5776 (11\/25\/16) \u2013 Bava Metzia Daf 60 ~ Eliezer Guterman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">WATERED WINES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[60a top] <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mishnah<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: If one\u2019s barrel of wine had water mixed in, he must not sell it in his store, unless he informs the buyers (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that it is diluted<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). He may never sell diluted wine barrels (as a wholeseller) to other merchants, even if he informs them of its diluted states, for the store owners\u2019 intentions may be to deceive customers [<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rashi<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: he would be placing easy stumbling blocks in their way].<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R\u2019 Rosner quoting the Sma<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Since the store owner would not have been the one who did the diluting of the wine barrels, he may justify his incorrect sales as claiming that he is just the middle man (and did not physically do anything wrong to the wine himself) [but he would have more of a guilty conscience if he would have done the \u2018bad deed\u2019 of diluting the wine]. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>D-E-ep Thoughts<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Even if people do not do things technically wrong themselves, if they \u2018hang around\u2019 impropriety, they are likely to get pulled down. We should never purposefully put ourselves in compramising situations. The strongest people can be the weakest when overcome by the Yetzer Hara\u2019s tricks into moments of foolishness (Heaven forbid). We must guard the souls that we are by creating strong fences and regularly checking the locks on our gates.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATERED WINES [60a top] Mishnah: If one\u2019s barrel of wine had water mixed in, he must not sell it in his store, unless he informs the buyers (that it is diluted). He may never sell diluted wine barrels (as a wholeseller) to other merchants, even if he informs them of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemarah-bava-metzia","category-l4l-by-eliezer","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3348,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}