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Podcast: Talking Talmud
Episode: Bava Batra 167: How Far People Go to Commit Fraud
Description: More on the tips and tricks in documents to avoid the possibility of forgery or fraud -- beginning with not leaving too much blank space for someone to sneak additional text into the document. With the example of a toll collector and the attempt to get out of paying the toll. And an example of doctoring a letter in a document as an easy means of stealing property (in a deed). Also, when the two parties involved in the transaction of a document need to be present at the scribe who writes the document, and when is one of...