[Avodah] charging ribis to a Jew / non-Jew

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 15:38:58 +0200
"Michael Makovi" <mikewinddale at gmail.com> wrote:

[snip]

> to charge you interest. That's fortunate, because it would certainly
> be an interesting thing: go to a bank to take out a loan, and ask the
> bank employee to sign an Aramaic document permitting you to pay him
> interest.

There's no requirement that a heter iska be in Aramaic.

> Mikha'el Makovi

Yitzhak
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