[Avodah] reasons for torah loopholes in dinei mamonos

David Riceman driceman at att.net
Mon Apr 6 05:15:26 PDT 2009


Chana Luntz wrote:
> What to my mind is intriguing about hezek she'eino nikar as it is 
> brought in
> the Codes and as the rabbis legislated for it, is that the decrease in
> value, the difference between the main market and the shadow market, if that
> is the way you want to express it, is solely due to Torah values.

While cleaning and carrying I was musing about how to shoehorn the sugya 
in Gittin 41a (about selling a mortgaged slave as hezek she'eino nikkar) 
into this paradigm.  I came up with some wild ideas, but nothing plausible.

David Riceman



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