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# גזילה - gezela is grabbing something from someone else's possession by force, in plain sight <ref> Vayikra 19:13, Baba Kama 79b, Rambam Hilchot Gezela 1:3, Shulchan Aruch CM 359:7.</ref>
# גזילה - gezela is grabbing something from someone else's possession by force, in plain sight <ref> Vayikra 19:13, Baba Kama 79b, Rambam Hilchot Gezela 1:3, Shulchan Aruch CM 359:7.</ref>
# עושק - oshek is to withhold somebody else's item from them with force, such as they gave you money and now are asking for it back and you refuse to give it.  
# עושק - oshek is to withhold somebody else's item from them with force, such as they gave you money and now are asking for it back and you refuse to give it.  
# Additionally, Baba Metzia 61a-b points out that ribbit (lending with interest), [Onaat Mamon] (overcharging), and imbalanced weights are also forms of stealing. See Rashi there d"h Lama Li that these are all forms of causing financial loss to another person<ref>Halachos of Other People's Money pg. 19 note 13 </ref>
# Additionally, [[Ribbit]] (lending with interest), [[Onaat Mamon]] (overcharging or cheating), and imbalanced weights are also forms of stealing as these are all forms of causing financial loss to another person.<ref>Baba Metzia 61a-b, Rashi s.v. Lama Li, Halachos of Other People's Money pg. 19 note 13 </ref>  
# One who commits fraud, whether it is the seller defrauding the buyer or the buyer defrauding the seller, violates a Torah prohibition. <ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 62:1 </ref>


==Statements of Chazal Regarding the Severity==
==Statements of Chazal Regarding the Severity==
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# It is equally forbidden to steal from the government, such as a federal or state government body.<ref> Halachos of Other People's Money pg. 34</ref>
# It is equally forbidden to steal from the government, such as a federal or state government body.<ref> Halachos of Other People's Money pg. 34</ref>
# One who receives government funding to provide lunch to students, cannot fraudulently add the name of a non-existing student to collect extra funds.<ref> Halachos of Other People's Money pg. 35, Shu"t Igrot Moshe CM 2:29</ref>
# One who receives government funding to provide lunch to students, cannot fraudulently add the name of a non-existing student to collect extra funds.<ref> Halachos of Other People's Money pg. 35, Shu"t Igrot Moshe CM 2:29</ref>
# It is prohibited to avoid paying taxes in a democracy such as the United States.<ref> Shu"t Igrot Moshe CM 2:29, Shu"t Shevet Halevi 2:58, [https://www.torahweb.org/torah/special/2005/rsch_taxes.html Rav Hershel Schachter]. see there where Rav Schachter writes that taxes nowadays would not only be binding because of dina dimalchuta dina. Paying taxes is also your obligation to the partnership because taxes are used to provide services to the citizens (fire, police, military, garbage, mail etc). All the people of the city, state, country have to contribute to provide for that. Thus, one who withholds his taxes is not only taking from the government. He is taking from the other citizens, which inevitably includes other Jews. </ref>
# According to some poskim, patronizing a Jewish merchant who cheats on his taxes violates the Biblical prohibition of lifnei iver.<ref> [https://www.jlaw.com/Commentary/payingtaxes.html Eli Clark] quoted from Rav Hershel Schachter </ref>


==Other Forms of Stealing==
==Other Forms of Stealing==
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