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1: Multiple Choice
1.In the Talmud (the Jewish book of Law), what is robbing a person of even a penny comparable to?​


Sagot :

Answer:

TAKING HIS OR HER LIFE.

Explanation:

The Torah (Scroll of the Law from the Old Testament) instructs Jews not to steal or deal dishonestly. A man, Rabbi Yohanan who lived around 240AD, said, that when a person robs his fellow, even to the value of a mere ‘perutah’ (a penny), it is just as if he had taken his life away from him, as it is said, 'So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain, which takes away the life of the owners thereof' (Proverbs 1:19)