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Our sages tell us that there are three
types of theft out there. Number one is
called genevah,
where a person steals at night. He's
afraid of people, so he tries not to be
seen.
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>> Second one is called gezela,
person who tries to steal in in the
broad daylight. He's not even afraid of
people, not of Hashem either.
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>> But the worst of all is khamsan. As
Hamas, so that the Torah tells in this
week's parsha,
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>> but the mabul had its khamas,
the whole world was full of khamas.
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>> Right? Doesn't mean terrorists, it means
the third type of of theft. And Rashi
even says that even though people were
doing idol worship and inappropriate
sexual relationships, but the worst of
all was khamsan.
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>> What in the world? How could What could
be worse than stealing broad daylight?
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>> So our sages tell us,
a person comes up to another person and
he says, "Listen, I want to buy your
watch."
And the guy says, "I'm sorry, it's not
for sale." So what? I want to buy it. I
don't care it's not for sale. I I looked
it up. It costs $100,000. Here's
$100,000, it's mine. The guy says, "No,
it's not for sale."
He puts a gun to his head and says, "You
either sell it to me or I'm going to
take it." And so he says, "Okay."
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>> Gives him the watch, takes $100,000,
puts it in his pocket. Our sages say
that is the worst type of theft.
And the commentators ask,
"Why is that so bad?
What's going on over here? The first
two, ganav and gazlan, they stole, they
didn't even give the money for that.
They stole.
How could khamas be worse?
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>> At least the guy received some money for
it,
the full amount even."
And our commentators tell us the
important concept of butai is sod olam,
it's incredible.
Because the person that stole is [music]
considered stealing, but in his mind
it's considered a transaction. What? I
didn't do anything wrong. I gave him the
money the watch was worth. What do you
want from me?
So when goes around thinking that it's
okay, I didn't do anything wrong, that
is the problem because he doesn't
realize that he actually sinned.
The Torah tells us a lot of don't be
jealous, don't cover other people's
stuff stuff. And it's not just an
emotion. The Shulchan Aruch says, if you
pressure somebody to to sell, that's
when you transgress
the prohibition of
being jealous of their thing.
So, a person that pressures another
person to to sell and he gives the money
for it, he feels I'm I'm I'm good. I'm
I'm there's nothing wrong with me. And
that's the worst thing because when we
sin, we usually feel bad. We know deep
inside that we're doing something wrong,
but this person does not. The worst
thing is when a person doesn't realize
that he's doing something wrong.
