ABSTRACT
Is it permitted to undercut market prices? This text is ambivalent. On the one hand, Rabbi Yehudah condemns the unfair advantage that undercutting market prices might confer to a shopkeeper. On the other hand, the Sages provide a justification for selling goods under the market price, namely that it could serve the public good. The text does not provide an ethical rationale for undercutting the market prices and seems only to suggest that, for the public good, it might sometimes be advisable to call for selling goods under the market price.
