Being Careful With Other People's Money: Difference between revisions

* The Shach 348:2 writes that the implication of Shulchan Aruch is that this is biblically forbidden, as the Tur and Smag write. The Gra, Radvaz 4:205, Rabbi Akiva Eiger, Netivot Hamishpat 348, Beit Shmuel EH 28:5, Chelkat Mechokek EH 28:3, Shulchan Aruch Harav Gezela 1 and 23, all agree that it is biblically forbidden to steal from a non-Jew. </ref> This is true whether it is an individual or a corporation.<ref>Halachos of Other People's Money pg. 32, [https://torah.org/torah-portion/weekly-halacha-5772-pinchas/ Rabbi Doniel Neustadt] </ref>

# For example, one may not take supplies from work, even if his employer is a non-Jew.<ref>Halachos of Other People's Money pg. 33. </ref>

* Aruch Hashulchan 348:1 writes that although some poskim maintain that the Biblical prohibition against stealing from a Jew is limited to stealing more than the value of a perutah, stealing from a non-Jew is forbidden min ha-Torah even for an item valued less than a perutah.

* Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 182:1 relates a story from the Tanna d’Bei Eliyahu of a certain person who shorted a non-Jewish customer in the measure of dates that he sold him. Later, he used the money from that transaction to purchase oil. The flask broke and the oil was spilled, causing the one relating the incident to exclaim, “Blessed is G-d, Who does not let people get away with such things!” Leviticus 19:13 says, “Do not oppress your neighbor or steal from him.”