[Avodah] OOPS Re: reasons for torah loopholes in dinei mamonos

[David Riceman]

Of course I meant freeing a mortgaged slave.

DR

David Riceman wrote:
> 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
>