Today’s Talmud page, Bava Metzia 41, delivers a strange ruling: A person, it tells us, doesn’t have to cause another’s financial loss or damages in order to be guilty of misappropriation. What, then, does misappropriation truly mean? And what does it have to do with a recent and highly controversial decision by McDonald’s? Listen and find out.
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