[Avodah] All transgressions are sins?

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:20:21 +0200
Daniel Eidensohn <yadmoshe at 012.net.il> wrote:

> I am looking for a clear source that every transgression of a negative 
> comandment is a sin which requires teshuva.
> 
> In particular I am studying the prohibition of ona'ah - fraud. It is 
> prohibited for someone to overcharge by a sixth. If he overcharges more 
> the sale is invalid while if he overcharges less than a sixth it is 
> assumed that the buyer is mochel - and presumably there is no sin.

The Rosh, cited by SA (HM 227:6), is uncertain if one is permitted to
overcharge by less than one sixth; see also R. A. Eiger and the Imrei
Baruch on the SA.

> Daniel Eidensohn

Yitzhak
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