The damage of a few pennies
They say that the damage of a penny, about 10 agorat, is forgiven.
Can the same be said about the value of a shekel from a product worth a thousand shekels?
Nowadays, when a person does not sue his friend for 10 shekels, is such a loss also probably forgiven?
Where is the border?
This may depend on the question of whether a penny is a Torah shiur or is it the definition of money. Is stealing less than a penny half a shiur or is it not money at all and there is no stealing here? According to the explanation that in the Jewish rabbinate, forgiveness is given, it seems that it is indeed money, only forgiveness is given to it, but I remember that Rashi Sanhedrin means that it is not money at all.
In any case, if one forgives, there is no obligation to pay, and simply, it is regardless of the amount of a penny. But it seems that there is a prohibition in any case.
Although forgiveness can operate in a parallel way to the rate/definition of money. Therefore, even if it is money, if it is forgiven, there is no obligation to pay/repay it. But simply put, there is a prohibition in this.
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