Question. My maid stole 400$ from my house, and we are saw that at our camera. We don’t want to fight with her because it will don’t helpful, but she think that we need to pay her 300 $ less, it’s allowed to decease her money without she knows?
Answer. If you know that fight with her will not helpful, and you sure that she stole the money, at this case you can do that, it wrote at the Gemara.
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